This isn’t exactly a provable statement, but for all we know, Bitcoin could have been a gift from extraterrestrials, said former Department of Defense employee David Grusch. Could aliens be using cryptocurrency? Recent testimony from Grusch and other whistleblowers suggests that the U.S. government has been covering up information regarding unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in the nation’s airspace.
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor, who shot the now widely circulated footage of a Tic Tac-shaped object capable of aerial maneuvers far beyond the technical limitations of modern aircraft, also testified in the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security hearing Wednesday.
Cryptocurrency could be a way to empower individuals and build tools that authorities cannot control. Bitcoin was the first to solve the Byzantine Generals Problem—a way to coordinate trust among people separated by time, distance, and motivations—and fiat hasn’t.
Samuel Edward Konkin III, the political philosopher who coined the term and advocated for agorism, argued against engaging in political processes and instead encouraged people to withdraw their consent to be governed by only transacting in black or gray markets. Agoras for Konkin are opt-in free markets, which sounds pretty crypto.
Bitcoin was launched to steal back the power to transact freely from internet corporations and shield some private information from surveillance. Could this be why the U.S. government is working to crush crypto, or at least regulate it into a version they can still control?
Cryptocurrency could be a necessary tool for space exploration, and if aliens exist, their cash would likely be digital and inherently trustworthy. Could the government be suppressing crypto to prevent us from leaving our overlords?