Lead Bitcoin Developer Invited to CIA for Presentation

Bitcoin lead developer and Bitcoin.org executive Gavin Andresen said he was invited to the CIA headquarters for a presentation.

It seems that Bitcoin is beginning to attract the attention of the special services. Perhaps they are interested in the problem of anonymous payments and the possibility of money laundering through Bitcoin or the reasons for the abnormal growth rate in recent months.



In turn, Gavin wants to explain to the intelligence officers the advantages of this revolutionary development and how it can change the global financial system, as well as explain the basic principles of the functioning of the peering cryptocurrency. That is about the same that was published on Habré in the article “ Bitcoin. How it works . ”
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The presentation will take place in June. Gavin says that the CIA will pay him only $ 3,000 and this is a one-time payment that will not happen again. He asks to refrain from any speculation about cooperation with intelligence or switching to “funding by special services”, as was the case with the developers of the IPSec encryption protocol stack in OpenBSD.

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You can read more about Gavin Address himself and his business in this interview .