(Publisher: Time to get caught up on the real battle... "If They/Them/Those CAN maintain, enhance, increase their monopolistic control of everything that they can, then they are". And they sure as hell want to.

The following observation by Natural News is a genuine threat and after reading Mike Adam's concerns I would encourage you to read the linked articles I've provided as well. .. at bottom of page)

(Natural News) I'm going to assume the readers who make it to this article are well informed enough that I don't have to go into the history of the global money changers and their desire for a one world currency. (If you don't yet understand the goal of the globalist banking empire and the coming engineered collapse of the fiat currency system, you're already about 5,000 posts behind the curve.)

With that as a starting point, it's now becoming increasingly evident that Bitcoin may be a creation of the NSA and was rolled out as a "normalization" experiment to get the public familiar with digital currency. Once this is established, the world's fiat currencies will be obliterated in an engineered debt collapse (see below for the sequence of events), then replaced with a government approved cryptocurrency with tracking of all transactions and digital wallets by the world's western governments.

NSA mathematicians detailed "digital cash" two decades ago

What evidence supports this notion? First, take a look at this document entitled, "How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash." This document, released in 1997 — yes, twenty years ago — detailed the overall structure and function of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Who authored the document? Try not to be shocked when you learn it was authored by "mathematical cryptographers at the National Security Agency's Office of Information Security Research and Technology."

The NSA, in other words, detailed key elements of Bitcoin long before Bitcoin ever came into existence. Much of the Bitcoin protocol is detailed in this document, including signature authentication techniques, eliminating cryptocoin counterfeits through transaction authentication and several features that support anonymity and untraceability of transactions. The document even outlines the heightened risk of money laundering that's easily accomplished with cryptocurrencies. It also describes "secure hashing" to be "both one-way and collision-free."

Although Bitcoin adds mining and a shared, peer-to-peer blockchain transaction authentication system to this structure, it's clear that the NSA was researching cryptocurrencies long before everyday users had ever heard of the term. Note, too, that the name of the person credited with founding Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto, who is reputed to have reserved one million Bitcoins for himself. Millions of posts and online threads discuss the possible identity of Satishi Nakamoto, and some posts even claim the NSA has identified Satoshi. However, another likely explanation is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the NSA, which means he is either working for the NSA is is a sock puppet character created by the NSA for the purpose of this whole grand experiment.

The NSA also wrote the crypto hash used by Bitcoin to secure all transactions

On top of the fact that the NSA authored a technical paper on cryptocurrency long before the arrival of Bitcoin, the agency is also the creator of the SHA-256 hash upon which every Bitcoin transaction in the world depends. As The Hacker News explains. "The integrity of Bitcoin depends on a hash function called SHA-256, which was designed by the NSA and published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)." THN also adds:

REST OF STORY HERE https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-10-evidence-points-to-bitcoin-being-an-nsa-psyop-roll-out-one-world-digital-currency.html

Other Recommended  Links:
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/229778-2017-11-22-blockstream-is-now-controlled-by-the-bilderberg-group-seriously.htm

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/230844-2017-12-10-new-cme-bitcoin-futures-and-the-goldman-sachs-connection.htm

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/230691-2017-12-07-senators-grassley-feinstein-introduce-law-against-cash-and-bitcoin.htm

Publisher: Cryptocurrencies have the ability to be weaponized money and the feared "Mark of the Beast" is support of Big Bubba's dream to control everything in real time. Crypto also has the ability to free individuals from enslavement,... and that makes this tech the most dangerous threat to They/Them/Those that will not leave us alone. IMNSHO, Bitcoin will eventually {if not already} become GoldmanSucks dot GovCoin and all other competitors will be ruled illegal in as many forms as possible to protect the government approved monopoly of selected and compliant crypto currencies.

Transfer and liquidation of Crypto assets will become more difficult and limited and certainly will require ID validation on exchanges and other dealings with most services and institutions involved with Crypto.

I personally am converting all but the most freedom oriented/future of freedom thinking crypto into cheap Silver and finding a deep hole.... well, thinking and leaning this way at this moment.

I hope you'll read the "Letters of Captain Marque" to understand what we think of such things. The Second Letter of Captain Marque is of specific interest to this issue and defines our desires and concerns.

FYI