1/ a Japanese crypto researcher (not closely affiliated with the US govt at all) published research in the 90s that gets cited by the US govt
2/ the contents of this govt paper are publicly released for everyone to read
3/ the original BTC paper comes out 10+ years later, and also had a Japanese author
4/ therefore the US govt specifically the NSA invented btc?
How does this stuff end up on HN in the first place. It's like saying AWS invented Merkle trees because DynamoDB paper uses them.
1/ a Japanese crypto researcher (not closely affiliated with the US govt at all) published research in the 90s that gets cited by the US govt
2/ the contents of this govt paper are publicly released for everyone to read
3/ the original BTC paper comes out 10+ years later, and also had a Japanese author
4/ therefore the US govt specifically the NSA invented btc?
How does this stuff end up on HN in the first place. It's like saying AWS invented Merkle trees because DynamoDB paper uses them.