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Cypherpunks and US Intelligence (Part 1): WikiLeaks, EFF and TOR
Many top cypherpunk cryptopgraphers (some already mentioned earlier in this thread) are linked to US intelligence. Similarly, many early Bitcoin and crypto pioneers have ties to intelligence agencies, adding to the likelihood that Bitcoin originated from the US NSA or CIA, with the help of cypherpunk assets under the guise of “anti-government” libertarianism through decentralization for a more fair and completely private monetary network. This is simply a farce cover story and there is most likely “backdoor” access from the US government intelligence (maybe other government inteligence as well such as Israel’s 8200 Unit). This is similar to the PROMIS software of the 1980’s that was sold as “secure” when the NSA had access (as well as foreign intelligence agencies) nearly the entire time it was use and sold around the world.
Several of the cypherpunk and libertarian assets tied to bitcoin are also “whistle-blowers” against the US government. This is another cover for the storyline, meaning they are likely playing roles to give the illusion of brave heroes going against the machine or “big brother”. These whistle-blowers include Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
Edward Snowden, famously leaked thousands of classified documents including the global surveillence program, inlcuding PRISM, was a former contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen Hamilton, a major U.S. government contractor, has deep ties to the CIA and broader intelligence community, employing over 1,000 former intelligence officers and securing $1.3 billion in intelligence contracts annually as of 2013. Snowden held positions in both the CIA and NSA. He is assocaited (or was) with several relevant cypherpunks, including Moxie Marlinspike, Jacob Appelbaum, Runa Sandvik and several others. Snowden recieved help from Julain Assange when Sarah Harrison, sent by Julian Assange, helped Snowden secure asylum in Russia, accompanied him on his flight, and stayed with him for 39 days in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, later ensuring his safety in Russia after his massive leaks were made public.
Mentioned earlier in the thread, Julian Assange was a member of the Extropy Institute. Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, leaked over 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. He then orchestrated the release of U.S. military and diplomatic leaks, including the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, sparking global controversy. Coincidentally, Chelsea manning (a transgender male to female) once dated Elon Musk’s ex “Grimes” (Claire Boucher) [likely also a transgender male to female]. Chelsea Manning was also close with cypherpunks like Isis Lovecruft and Yan Zhu. Yan Zhu was an intelligence analyst for the US DoD, as well as a ‘Hacker Comununity Organizer’ for Noisebridge, a “hackerspace” noteable in the cypherpunk community. Yan Zhu was also a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation through litigation, policy advocacy, and technology development. Noteable members of the EFF include: Hal Finney, Jacob Appelbaum, Yan Zhu and Esther Dyson. Esther Dyson worked closley with many transhumanist and cypherpunks. She also worked with Barney Pell of Singularity and Bing! (Microsoft) as well as received funding from Jeffrey Epstein for her research on transhuman and longevity science. She worked at Space Adventures with XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis. Diamandis also is a member of Singularity with Barney Pell, Ray Kurzweil, David Bray and Cathie Wood. Cathie Wood funds many Elon companies and Peter Thiel’s Palantir.
Todd Huffman worked with the US DoDlike Yan Zhu, specializing in intelligence analysis. They also are both members of Noisebridge mentioned before, the “hackerspace” community event for cypherpunks. He also worked extensively with DARPA, helping found and operate the TOR Project. The Tor Project, founded in 2006 as a nonprofit, develops Tor, a free, open-source network that enables anonymous communication by routing internet traffic through multiple volunteer-operated servers to conceal users’ identities and locations. It protects against surveillance, censorship, and tracking, and is widely used by activists, journalists, and privacy advocates. This is a very similar “project” to Bitcoin in terms of privacy, operations and libertarianism. It was funded by the US goverment and developed at the US Naval Research Laboratory, much like how Bitcoin most likely is. This is another reason it is likely Bitcoin is nothing more than a US goverment (intelligence) project, created by these cypherpunk intelligence assets under the cover of “libertarianism”.
Libertarianism is a commonality within the cypherpunk community, even the Silicon Valley futurists like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman. All have ties to intelligence agencies as well. Peter Thiel is an outed FBI informant, and through his Thiel Foundation and Breakout Labs subsequently, he is a large donor of 3scan and Strateos, Inc. Both 3scan and Strateos, Inc. are also funded by DAPRA with positions held bymany cypherpunks, including the already mentioned Todd Huffman and Max Hodak. Max is the co-founder of Elon Musk’s Neuralink company. Max is also invested in Synchron along with DARPA, a company similar to Neuralink, working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) called Stentrode.