Today 11 years ago, a Bitcoin developer decided to visit the CIA after that Satoshi Nakamoto was never seen again.

Gavin Adresen posted that he's going to visit CIA to give a presentation at an Emerging conference for the US intelligence community. Remember that he was invited by the CIA for this conference. That means CIA I knew about Bitcoin.

This is what he posted

I want to get this out in the open because it is the kind of thing that will generate conspiracy theories: I'm going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at CIA Headquarters in June at an emerging technologies conference for the US intelligence community.

I accepted the invitation to speak because the act that I was invited means Bitcoin is already on their radar, and I think it might be a good chance to talk about why I think Bitcoin will make the world a better place. I think the goals of this project are to create better currency, create a more competitive and efficient international payment incompatible with goals of government.

I'm only very slightly worried that talking about Bitcoin at the CIA will increase the chances that they'll try to do something we don't want them to do. I think accepting their invitation and being open about exactly what bitcoin is will make it less likely they will see it as a threat.

PS: Full Disclosure: I'll be paid a one-time fee of $3K to cover expenses and pay me for my time. I don't want any "Gavin is on the CIA's payroll" rumors to get started, either

as always, comments and questions and discussion welcome. I'd really rather not hear any conspiracy theories about how they will secretly implant a mind-control chip in my head while I'm there, though.

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After that Mr. Satoshi never made any post again.

Source: https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=6652.0