Ripple CTO Schwartz Revisits NSA Past And Satoshi Speculation

Ripple CTO Schwartz Revisits NSA Past And Satoshi Speculation

Ripple chief technology officer David “JoelKatz” Schwartz has resurfaced a years-long thread of speculation around Bitcoin’s origins and his own pre-Ripple work with US government agencies, clarifying once again that he neither possessed “high level” intelligence nor claims special insight into Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity—while acknowledging that a US intelligence provenance for Bitcoin is “not a […]


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