Was Bitcoin created by the US government? $BTC = Beta Test Coin... $XRP created 3 years later as proof of concept for real world use?
Interesting read...Well, it just so happens that this algorithm is the direct work of  Glenn M. Lilly, a mathematician who, under the direction of the NSA,  designed and eventually published the algorithm in 2001. Lilly later  became the NSA’s chief of mathematics research.  The NSA was also one of the first organizations to describe a Bitcoin-like system in a 1996 paper titled How To Make A Mint: The Cryptography Of Anonymous Electronic Cash.  In the paper, the authors proposed a system that uses public-key cryptography to allow users to make anonymous payments without revealing their identity.  The name of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, can be  interpreted as a reference to the U.S. spy agency. Nakamoto, loosely  translated from Japanese, means “central,” while the name Satoshi means  “intelligent.”