17 pages of research into Bit Fraud
http://mileswmathis.com/bitfraud.pdf
This story reads just like Google, doesn’t it? It is now admitted that the Stanford computer science department was directly funded by U.S. Intelligence and that doctorate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed Google under close supervision and guidance from Intelligence agents. We have every reason to believe the same thing was (and is) happening at UW’s computer science school, and that Microsoft was one of the results of Intel’s investment. (And lest I forget to mention it, the two largest investors in Microsoft are The Vanguard Group and BlackRock.) Likewise, Nick Szabo and Wei Dai were the Brin and Page (or Gates and Allen, if you like) of Bitcoin – computer science students at a spook school developing another product for their financial backers in Intel. Or more likely, the faces paid to front the product.
Since The Vanguard Group and Blackrock keep coming up so much, let’s see what other connections we can find. How about this. The number one cryptocurrency news and opinion site is CoinDesk.com. It popped up in 2015, almost out of nowhere. In fact, it didn’t come out of nowhere, but it takes a bit of digging to figure out who’s behind the site. It’s owned by Digital Currency Group, a venture capital firm started in 2015 by Barry Silbert. Silbert is a Bitcoin angel investor who provided funding for some of the earliest Bitcoin companies like Coinbase and BitPay. But Digital Currency Group is actually a subsidiary of NASDAQ Private Market, owned by NASDAQ Inc., which of course owns and operates the NASDAQ stock exchange as well as eight of the largest European stock exchanges. Guess who are the second and third largest institutional holders of NASDAQ Inc.? BlackRock and The Vanguard Group.
It should raise all sorts of alarms in your head that Silbert is one of the biggest cryptocurrency investors and also the man behind the top news site about cryptocurrencies, which claims to be an impartial news source. A December 2017 Reuters article, aptly titled “Ex-banker cheerleads his way to cryptocurrency riches”, points out the obvious confict of interest there, as does this scathing article at Medium, which also points out that Digital Currency Group doesn’t just own CoinDesk.com, but also 19 popular cryptocurrency exchanges and/or trading companies, including Kraken, Shapeshift (of which Erik Voorhees is CEO), Coinbase, Bitoasis, Bitfyer, Bitso, Coinsetter, and so on.