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Jiang Xueqin, popularly known as&nbsp;"Professor Jiang," is best known for his commentary on geopolitical matters on his YouTube channel "Predictive History."
With 2.3 million subscribers,&nbsp;Jiang&nbsp;is a very popular YouTuber whose videos keep going viral. Though&nbsp;he uses the term "Professor," he hasn't taught at a university level.
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On Apr. 15, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIL8PsSNTZg" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">appeared</a> on podcaster Jack Neel's YouTube channel and made several claims about Bitcoin (BTC) that caught the attention of the crypto community.
The American deep state created Bitcoin as a&nbsp;surveillance and ops-funding tool and it's a&nbsp;"CIA operation,"&nbsp;Jiang&nbsp;claimed.
In fact, he called <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/polymarket-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Satoshi Nakamoto</a>, the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed Bitcoin, a cover for a CIA operation.&nbsp;Nakamoto’s anonymity is “institutionally suspicious,” he said.
Jiang put forward three questions under what he calls the game theory framework:
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 <li>Who had the technical capacity to build Bitcoin?</li>
 <li>Who benefits from Bitcoin's transparent ledger?</li>
 <li>Why would anyone build such a system and give it away for free?</li>
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The&nbsp;Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the&nbsp;National Security Agency (NSA), and the&nbsp;Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are the obvious answers, he highlighted.
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 “When you do game theory analysis, you look at all possibilities, you end up with the deep state,” Jiang said. “You end up with the CIA.”
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Bitcoin's ledger is public, which means all the transactions are publicly available; so, it's not a privacy tool at all. Instead, it's a financial surveillance tool, he argued.
Regardless of the open-source code, he questioned where the Bitcoin network's servers are physically located.&nbsp;
The popular YouTuber also claimed that the Winklevoss twins had insider&nbsp;information, which is why they invested in Bitcoin so early.
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<h2 id="bitcoiners-slam-jiang-s-bitcoin-claims">Bitcoiners slam Jiang's Bitcoin claims</h2>
The Bitcoin community sharply criticized Jiang's Bitcoin claims and put forward a range of arguments to debunk his claims.
A crypto user on X, who uses the handle&nbsp;ZynxBTC, <a href="https://x.com/ZynxBTC/status/2044527955527848184" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> it doesn't matter who created Bitcoin because it is decentralized and not controlled by any single entity.&nbsp;
Regarding the presence of Bitcoin's physical servers, he said they are spread across the world, where nodes are running the network.
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 "Bitcoin is ultimately an IQ test and this "Professor" has failed,"&nbsp;ZynxBTC remarked.&nbsp;"It's been 17 years and they still fail to understand the basics."
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Another veteran Bitcoiner,&nbsp;Ansel Lindner, <a href="https://x.com/AnselLindner/status/2044472834068455847" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">called</a> Jiang one of those "dimwits" who don't understand Bitcoin's decentralization model.
Investment strategist and Bitcoin advocate&nbsp;Lyn Alden agreed with Lindner, saying people like Jiang&nbsp;don’t understand the open-source or the proof-of-work aspects of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is&nbsp;transparent and decentralized and it doesn't matter&nbsp;who created it, she added.
At press time, Bitcoin was trading at&nbsp;$74,365.83.
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'Professor' Jiang's Bitcoin 'CIA operation' claim triggers backlash

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