Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh

its true value is in its facilitation of dark markets online. i'd bet a million bucks US Intelligence INVENTED it to pay spies, dictators & gun smugglers. Not only that, but now the NSA has duped thousands into "mining" AKA working decryption algos for US intelligence for free. Its a known fact the US navy created Tor, so its not a stretch of imagination that some NSA genius invented bitcoin & the whole libertarian angle to facilitate the dark markets online & US intelligence can track the whole fucking thing. Silk road went down, twice. If its so anonymous how'd that happen? the silk road founder slipped up on a gmail account? please. Everything surrounding bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy, including how Gox disappeared. & its no coincidence that russia & china are banning it.