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Jiang says game-theory analysis of Bitcoin asks who had the expertise, who benefited, and why secrecy mattered, leading him to the American deep state/CIA as the likely creator or sponsor.
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Blockchain
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...years possibly decades in your basement creating a new technology the blockchain and technology and then just give it for free to the world..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...years possibly decades in your basement creating a new technology the blockchain and technology and then just give it for free to the world..."
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Jiang argues that if one reasons from hardware cost, motive, and secrecy, the most logical conclusion is that Bitcoin and the blockchain were built by a US military-intelligence research arm such as DARPA rather than by an isolated civilian genius.
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The host describes a possible future in which fiat dollars become stablecoins, bank accounts become unnecessary, and people self-custody money for frictionless global transfers.
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"...years possibly decades in your basement creating a new technology the blockchain and technology and then just give it for free to the world..."
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"...who would have the expertise and the technology to create the blockchain? Probably the same people who created the internet. Probably the same people..."
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"...to finance its operations. It basically needs a monitoring operation. And blockchain is a great mechanism to finance a lot of its operations. Especially..."
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"I want to know where the databases are, where the servers are physically."
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"...first principles, OK, 2008, this white paper is launched and the blockchain is launched. OK, now you have like certain questions. The first question..."
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"So if you just. Like, look at these three questions and you just do some first person thinking, the logical the only logical conclusion..."
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"...let's say, the dollars that you have are put in the blockchain? And let's say, suppose you don't have a bank account because you..."
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"...power, right? China talks about the gold corridor, which is this blockchain -like gold -based financial system where gold is stored in different vaults..."
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"...all in one place. Tether Gold is real gold on the blockchain with ownership of physical gold bars. USAT keeps your money steady against..."
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"...the world in Dubai and Shanghai, wherever. But it's like a blockchain. It's a ledger, open ledger, where gold becomes the basis for a..."
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"...own gold in your own vaults. But it'll be like the blockchain. I mean, it'll be an open ledger. And so everyone can see..."
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"...he says oh you know what i create this you know blockchain and it's all open and transparent and maybe you guys can use..."
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Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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