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Mandrik | 3 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +27 
 If a state agent invented Bitcoin, then it wasn't something he was ordered to do. 

It was an act of defiance.
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Jordan | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Maybe perhaps a theory it was to capture people into a digital only system, and encourage people to stop using cash 🤔.

Can't say either way but providing the counter argument.
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ಠ_ಠ вυввℓєz | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Pretty sure it was me when I was 17. Then I was in a horrible car cash learning to drift with friends and ended up in a coma and simply forgot my words....🤷

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anonymous | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It doesn't matter regardless. Don't trust any one person.
Trust the code and the underlying math. If it checks out as a closed mathematical system and is properly implemented, then that's it. That's essentially all you need. (With implemented here, I mean everything to get the program running on your system. And essentially also a reliable system.)