On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

Is there any chance that Satoshi works/worked for the NSA or equivalent?

For a huge number of reasons, s/he couldn't publish under her/his own name, but may have gotten permission to do this project anyway, so long as s/he didn't make any personal profit on it.

I can imagine that the NSA & GCHQ are still hurting at not getting proper credit for developing "public key" encryption, and they may not have wanted to see a long string of bad versions of bitcoins foisted upon the world when they already had a pretty good solution.

The NSA has proven to not be above doing things that it can exploit / track / manage.