content: I don't understand what you're saying. The predictable issuance of new coins is part of the design because it was made to imitate gold, and one of the greatest benefits in contrast to being an unlimited inflation machine like we have with the USD. So because it was designed to increase in difficulty and release coins more and more slowly over time that means its run by the CIA/NSA?? You lost me.  Additionally, the period of time you're talking about had more individual miners than we have now because of the emergence of mining pools. Just seems like you're saying because you didnt know about it back then, it must be a secret NSA conspiracy. Also are you saying there is a back door in the encryption algorithm itself? Because that would of course be false because math. Not trying to be a whatever, just trying to understand where you're coming from.