Crypto Community Pushes Back at Professor Jiang’s Viral CIA Bitcoin Theory
The crypto community has rejected Professor Jiang's viral claims that the CIA created Bitcoin, citing fundamental misunderstandings of the network's decentralized nature.Summary
Professor Jiang, a Beijing-based educator, sparked controversy by claiming in a viral podcast appearance that Bitcoin was created by the CIA as a tool for surveillance and covert operations. Jiang based his theory on misconceptions regarding Bitcoin’s server infrastructure and the anonymity of its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Industry experts and analysts have pushed back against these claims, clarifying that Bitcoin operates on thousands of independent, decentralized nodes without central control. Commentators such as Lyn Alden and Ansel Lindner emphasized that regardless of its origins, Bitcoin’s transparent, open-source nature renders central control impossible, dismissing Jiang's arguments as a fundamental misunderstanding of blockchain technology.
(Source：BeInCrypto)