Bitcoin - Slashdot

I've just seen this argument used many times now on Slashdot: "Bitcoin has failed because US government already has ability to control it, see Ross Ulbricht"
I'd like to say, I don't think there is any technology for anything anywhere that prevents a five dollar wrench attack. Once the government has it out for you and uses their near infinite resources, there really is few things you can do. I believe Ross was an example of this. But I don't think anyone trading in any other currency or medium has any way to totally always remain anonymous and out of reach from government hands. Bitcoin is the only thing that even comes close to this.
If the only way my store of value is hacked is with a five dollar wrench attack, I'd say that's pretty damned good currency.

Price of Bitcoin Plummets Below 'Psychological' $7,000 Level After China Promises Crackdown - Slashdot
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The World's Most-Used Cryptocurrency Isn't Bitcoin - Slashdot
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Login with Bitcoin backed PKI.?
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Once Hailed As Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked
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https://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl to vote, comment archive at https://slashdot.org/poll/3104/where-will-the-price-of-bitcoin-be-at-the-end-of-the-first-half-of-2019. Seems sort of biased towards a low education mentality (vs community 15 yrs ago)
Happy Voting!

This story is mostly crafted from my own experiences, my conversations with some of the people involved, and the rest is my own guesswork as I try to fill in the gaps...so bear with me!
That's why I wanted to share with this community, which I've watched grow over the years. I remember posting about the death of Barry Jennings (who witnessed explosions in the WTC on 9/11) the day after it happened. This was before /conspiracy (or right around when it was formed), and I remember thinking "we really need a sub for conspiracies on reddit!"
And here we are, 12 years later and over 1.3 million subscribers...incredible!
So...
My story starts with a young man. We'll call him Andrew.
Andrew grew up in the 90's in a coastal US town and quickly blossomed into a tech whiz at a young age.
He began building his own computers, and after a brief stint using Windows, he decided that Bill Gates was everything wrong with technology (and the world), and he made it his mission to make sure folks like Gates were NOT the future of computers.
He really believed that the use of technology was a fundamental human right, and that charging people for "proprietary" OS's that hid their source code was a violation of these rights.
He saw a possible Deus Ex-like future, with a technocracy literally around the corner if we didn't act now.
Andrew soon joined the Free Software Foundation and began rubbing elbows with the likes of Richard Stallman. He begun exclusively using GNU/Linux and was the type to correct you if you called it just "Linux". He also began visiting tech-savvy forums like slashdot and started networking in earnest.
By 2006 (his senior year of high school) Andrew was completely over his "education" and decided to just drop out completely.
Shockingly, a college accepted him anyway. A small East Coast school had been actively courting Andrew, and when they learned he had failed to get his HS diploma, they accepted him anyway!
Now sometime during this period Andrew went to Iceland and stayed in Reykjavik for several months.
This trip may have happened during the summer, fall, or early winter of 2006. The reason for his trip had something to do with his efforts in the FSF or similar group. The possible significance of this trip will become clear as we go on.
What is clear is that Andrew started college in the fall of 2006, and that the circumstances were unusual. Andrew soon met several like-minded individuals and began building a social and technological network at his school.
Two individuals in particular would become key players in his life (one more prominently in this story, but the other was significant as well), and eventually the 3 would live together in town for several years.
But for now let's stick with Andrew.
Andrew had an idea to build a social network for his college. Except, it wasn't just a network, it was a wiki for information about the school...and beyond. Soon, it began to morph into something much bigger in Andrew's mind.
He saw his project as being one of many data "hubs" for leaks of important documents and otherwise sensitive information.
So yeah, he saw the opportunity for a wiki for leaks (see where this is going yet...?).
As his ambitions grew, his behavior started to become increasingly erratic. He was caught with drugs and arrested. Strangely, the charges were pretty much dropped and he was given a slap on the wrist. Eventually he decided to leave the school, but still lived in town and had access to the servers on campus.
By 2010 Andrew was still living in the small town with his two "hacker" buddies, who were still enrolled at the school.
This house was in some ways legendary. It appears that many "interesting" people spent time at or visited the residence. Indeed, some of the early movers and shakers of /conspiracy itself passed through.
There was usually a full NO2 tank for anyone who was into that kinda thing, and they were stocked with every hallucinogen and research chemical known to man.
It was also likely under surveillance by multiple intelligence agencies (NSA/Mossad/etc).
Over time, the mental state of Andrew was slowly starting to deteriorate, which wasn't helped by his abuse of drugs.
Still, Andrew decided to move his base of operations to Europe, spending time in Belgium, the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
One of his housemates was soon to join him on his adventures in Europe and elsewhere abroad. We'll call him "Aaron."
Aaron had a very similar story and upbringing as Andrew. Aaron was also from a coastal US town and was born into privilege. He was also, supposedly, born into a family with some serious connections to intelligence agencies, including an uncle with ties to the NSA, and both parents connected to military brass.
By 2015, Andrew and Aaron were living together in the Czech Republic. During this time they were working directly and/or indirectly for the NSA (via Cisco and other companies).
You see, the "college" they met at was actually a front for the recruitment of kids into the IC. Apparently, many "schools" in the US function that way. Go figure.
Their intelligence and valuable skill set (hacking etc) made them valuable assets. They were also possibly involved with the distribution of certain "research chemicals" (of the 2C* variety) to dignitaries and their entourages (in one example, they provided 2CB to a group with David Cameron).
In addition, Andrew was allegedly involved with, or stumbled upon, an NSA-linked surveillance project directed at the entire country of Malaysia, while Aaron was involved with Cisco.
Aaron himself had gotten into hot water for releasing damaging information about the NSA, and even claimed to be an NSA whistleblower, and was also possibly the individual who leaked the 2014 (or 2015) Bilderberg meeting list.
And then things went bad. Andrew quit the Malaysia project and Aaron left Cisco. It seems Andrew and Aaron were "set up" during a fiery false flag event in the Czech Republic in 2015. It may have happened at an embassy, but it's unclear which. There is no information on the web about anything like this (afaik).
Aaron was immediately targeted and spent several years on the run. Allegedly, he was added to the list of victims in the so-called "Great Game".
The Great Game is the term used for an international assassination program where intelligence agencies share a list of targets to be neutralized. The German BND and Mossad are heavily involved, as other networks. Individuals targeted by the Great Game may be offed by actual assassins, or by NPC-like humans whose minds will be influenced by mind control tech (a la Matrix...say influencing someone to ram your car unwittingly ie).
As Aaron went on the lam, Andrew soon returned to the US, shell-shocked by his experience.
Both Andrew and Aaron continue to suffer from some sort of PTSD from these series of events, rendering Andrew largely incapacitated and Aaron scattered and discombobulated.
The Meat of the Matter
OK...where does that leave us? Why am I sharing all of this? I think there's much more to this story.
So let's start speculating! Everything I'm about to say is stuff that was told to me personally. I can't vouch for any of this information, though obviously I thought it was compelling enough to share.
Here's the gist: The so-called whistleblowers you see in the media are almost all fake.
This includes: Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Thomas Drake and William Binney (hey look, his AMA is pinned on this sub right now...no comment!). These individuals, and others, are controlled opposition. The real whistleblowers are severely punished.
For example, Bradley Manning was punished with chemical castration in jail. His "transformation" was chemically induced torture.
Andrew was not alone in his passion. There were lots of other young visionaries like him who dreamed of a freer and more transparent world.
In this story, Julian Assange was an intelligence asset...a psyop meant to steal the thunder from real activists like Andrew.
In this story, a small college-based "wiki" for government leaks was used as the model for an intelligence operation known as "wikileaks".
In this story, Andrew traveled to Iceland at some point in 2006.
When was Wikileaks founded? Wikileaks was founded by Julian Assange in December 2006, in Iceland.
Aaron discovered (legally, like Manning who had clearance to access all the data he leaked) damning information about surveillance happening by the NSA, specifically against recruits entering the US army and elsewhere.
In this story, the "Andrew" identity was co-opted and turned into "Julian Assange", and "Aaron" became "Edward Snowden".
Granted, there were probably other people that these whistleblower imposters were modeled after, but Andrew and Aaron seem like very strong contenders for some of this inspiration.
Now, much of the following may be gobbledygook (lol I spelled that right first try!) for all I know, but since I'm having a really hard time making sense of it all, I'll just include everything I can and let you guys run with it.
Here are some phrases, ideas, terms and people of note that may be involved with this story...MODS: None of this is doxing! All of the links of people are wikipedia pages or published interviews/articles. So yeah. Not dox!

• Wikileaks=honeypot/compromised
  
• PALANTIR, Peter Thiel, (INSLAW and PROMIS) software
  
• John Brennan), Keith Alexander, General Petraeus, Michael S. Rogers
  
• WORLD-WIDE META WARFARE: These are the sustained psyops and false flags like 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Sandy Hook and Coronavirus
  
• [Cisco](Cisco Systems, )/SBG/Juniper, short selling stocks pre 9/11, AA/United
  
• Elliott Rodger and Isla Vista Killings a psyop.
  
• Stratfor, Jeremy Hammond framed by CIA
  
• Rootkit: These are currency and the weapons of the intelligence agencies that allow access to any computer or OS on the planet.
  
• "schizo-affective disorder" doesn't exist, it's cover for EM warfare. For those they can't attack chemically (like Manning), they punish via EM. This technology has been used for decades. Both Andrew and Aaron were likely subjected to this punishment after they stopped playing ball. It likely continues for them both as well.
  
• Chaos Communication Congress
  
• Mike Gogulskistateless
  
• Jacob Appelbaum
  
• Glenn Greenwald & Laura Poitras = actors/psyop
  
• Adrian Lamo
  
• Media-run psywars, "narrarating" events, and "total information awareness"
  
• cryptome.org=psyop
  
• "infoamerica", "infoguard", "info america"=hidden standing army
  
• General Alexander monetized Snowden's leaks via hedgefund. ($24 million salary?)
  
• CIA psyops=Greenwald, Poitras/Petraeus (semantic psyop), Craig Newmark (Craig's list), Jeremy Scahill, Lew Rockwell
  
• Jon Matonis (I think this bitcoin founder?), Andy Greenburg
  
• Pavol Luptak, crypto-anarchy, institute of crypto-anarchy
  
• FSB/SVR)
  
• "Kremligon" - Czech Republic KGB
  
• Glassdoor hire crisis actors/role players (info america)
  
• tool-kit (Tectonic), "persona data frame"
  
• Vupen, "darcode"?, smugglers/France
  
• Jared Lee Loughner shooting a psyop
  
• Washington Navy Yard shooting a psyop (Aaron connected to this event and Isla Vista?)
  
• CARBERP botnet/Russian mafia
  
• Tailored Access Operations, Charlie Miller
  
• fuzzing, DEF CON
  
• Anarplex/Agora IRC
  
• Mark Webster?
  
• Barton Gellman
  
• Pavel Vrublevsky, ChronoPay, Glavmed
  
• PID0 Linux super user
  
• rootkit (blocker?), syscalls (magic oracle?), moduleinstall linux driver hack
  
• IAT import
  
• C4ISR
  
• Digital Monetary Trust/James Orlin Grabbe
  
• 2012 Bitcoin Hackathon Berlin
  

IN CONCLUSION
I don't know how these terms, theories and individuals fit into this story, but that they may be somehow related.
Hopefully there are enough bread crumbs in here to keep some of you busy!
Any help/insight would be appreciated. I confess I'm not so tech-minded so I can't offer any more explanation about some of the more techy terms.
Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks for continuing to stimulate after all these years! It's really nice to see this place continuing to thrive after all of this time!