The Crypto Stakes of Global States
Cryptocurrency conspiracies abound.
That should hardly come as a surprise. The supposed creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakomoto, has never revealed him-, her-, or it-self, and could be anything from a single security researcher through a shadowy criminal group to a surveillance project run by a three-letter agency. The very paradigm of crypto is privacy and secrecy. Transaction, possession and holding of most coins are nigh on impossible to trace, despite the claims of several startups promising to do just that