Bitcoin and other digital assets were "just another tool in the toolbox." – said Deputy Director of the CIA Micheal Jayellis.

I note that this is not the first time cryptocurrencies have been mentioned in the context of the CIA. Digital assets were mentioned directly by the CIA staff.

In particular, the former head of the CIA, Michael Morell, made it clear in 2021 that cryptocurrencies are an inconvenient tool for criminals. It's all about a transparent blockchain, where every transaction remains forever.

(Michael Morell)

This point of view differs significantly from the statements of officials, bankers and other representatives of the state.

Another former CIA chief, William Burns, noted at the Wall Street Journal summit in 2021 that "the CIA has several projects to track cryptocurrencies."

I would like to add that in 2021, several heads of the CIA were replaced.

(William Burns)

When asked whether the intelligence service was able to deter ransomware attacks outside the United States, Burns said that his predecessor in the position "launched a number of projects focused on cryptocurrencies."

According to Decrypt, the main objective of these initiatives is to help the US government monitor the development of the crypto market.

Here is a quote from a representative of the department, in which he mentioned digital currencies.

One of the ways to counteract and deter ransomware attacks is to be able to penetrate the financial networks that many criminals use, and this also applies to the issue of digital currencies.

That is, in fact, the representative of the CIA made it clear that the only way out for the organization is to carry out actions from within the niche.

Let me remind you that ransomware is malware created to block important information on computer systems in order to obtain a ransom for the access key to it.

Ransom is most often demanded in cryptocurrencies in the form of Bitcoin or Monero. Previously, several large organizations in the United States became victims of hacker attacks that caused heavy losses.

Therefore, the administration of President Joe Biden has named the fight against ransomware as one of the priorities of national security.

For example, in the summer of 2020, it became known about a hacker attack on a group of COVID-19 researchers from the University of California.

They were asked to pay a ransom of 116 bitcoins, otherwise the important data of the institution would have remained blocked.

I think that in the statements above there is an attempt to "cloud the brain" of people. To create an "imaginary threat" that the CIA itself can create in order to "deal with it later."

I think this is a "legend" for ordinary people to distract their attention from the main thing, but what is hidden behind the scenes?

It became interesting to me, and I came across Natalia Kaspersky's opinion about bitcoin.

Natalia Kaspersky's view

"Bitcoin is usually called a bubble and a pyramid. As a last resort, it's a way to avoid taxes and buy drugs," said Natalia Kaspersky, co—founder of Kaspersky Lab and current head of InfoWatch, back in 2018.

(Natalia Kaspersky)

In the same year, at the opening of the InfoWatch training center at ITMO University, Anti-Malware reports. Natalia showed a presentation on the topic "Modern technologies are the basis of information and cyber wars," and this is what she said about bitcoin:

"Bitcoin is the development of American special services for the purpose of covertly and quickly financing intelligence operations of the United States, England, Canada in different countries!

This development (Bitcoin) The United States has been "privatized" in the same way as the Internet, GPS, and TOR.

Bitcoin is actually Dollar 2.0!

Exchange rate control is in the hands of exchange owners!

«Satoshi Nakamoto» is a group of American cryptographers!

More than 25% of all bitcoins are in the hands of "its founders"!

927 people own 50% of all bitcoins, and 64% of all bitcoins are "sleeping"!

The exchange rate is purely exchange-based, it depends on the hype, the withdrawal of coins is orders of magnitude less than the input of real money into the system (as in a pyramid).

It seems that we have once again fallen for the bait of the American intelligence services. The fairy tale ended as quickly as it began." – Natalia Kapsperskaya noted.

By the way, in Russia, many people think that bitcoin is a pyramid scheme and it was created in order to siphon free cash from the economies and pour it into the cryptocurrency market! 

For others, it's just a moment when you can "make good" money or "lose." Someone understands that exchanges can't be beaten anyway!

Exchanges, betting, buying, selling - all this reminds me of gambling and people who often "get sick" of it by "getting hooked" on "this needle", selling a lot of real life and investing "there". They take loans and "get in over their heads," and then they look for ways to get out of all this.

For some it's a positive experience, but for others it's a sad one.

Bitcoin is a bubble inflated with air... - dollars. The dollar is also a bubble. If a bubble is inflated with a bubble, what happens? It will burst… Therefore, a collapse in the crypto market awaits us, and it will be many times stronger than the depression in 1929!

It will be like a "thermonuclear explosion" all over the world. Because the dollar will collapse – or rather, it is being purposefully led to "this" by the powerful in order to frame Trump.

It is his who they want to make extreme and "hang all the dogs" for their past failed projects. 

I don't think we have long to wait. But it will be absolutely accurate! I have accurate information from two independent sources!

We'll wait and see!

Only you can draw conclusions!

Be healthy and please take care of yourself!