Vitalik Buterin Derides Misleading Reports Regarding the NSA’s Creation of Bitcoin
‘My Opinions Have Changed A Lot’
On June 15, UK tabloid publication Metro published what it described as a “discovery” that Buterin had made remarks about Bitcoin’s being created by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
The evidence it gathered came in the form of messages from popular forum Bitcointalk — but Buterin had written them over eight years ago in 2011. At that time, he was seventeen years old.
“My opinions have obviously changed a lot since then,” Buterin wrote in a rebuttal on Twitter.
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More crazy misrepresentations in this article.
* “I wouldn’t be surprised” = “10-50% chance”, not “claims it’s true”* That bitcointalk post was from 2011. My opinions have obviously changed a lot since then.
— Vitalik “Not giving away ETH” Buterin (@VitalikButerin) June 16, 2018
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