{"id":54462,"date":"2025-10-23T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=54462"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:31:30","slug":"bitcoin-is-the-cias-greatest-scam-claims-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=54462","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is the CIA\u2019s Greatest Scam, Claims Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tucker Carlson has reignited one of Bitcoin\u2019s most charged debates\u2014privacy, provenance, and the politics wrapped around the origin\u2014by telling an audience on his \u201cThis Is The Turning Point\u201d tour that he believes the asset traces back to the US intelligence community. Pressed during an open-mic Q&A on whether he invests in Bitcoin and whether he views it as a viable asset, Carlson said he supports the principle of financial self-determination but fears what he describes as a widening gap between the ideal and the implementation.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin Is Not Private<\/h2>\n

\u201cI love the idea of Bitcoin because I love the idea of financial autonomy,\u201d he said<\/a>, framing his stance in civil-liberties terms rather than price speculation. \u201cI don\u2019t want what I buy or sell to be tracked. I don\u2019t want my money to be tracked. It\u2019s nobody\u2019s business.\u201d Carlson, who noted he has spoken at multiple Bitcoin events\u2014\u201cI spoke at the Bitcoin conference actually last year\u2026 I\u2019ve spoken at a couple of Bitcoin conferences\u201d\u2014cast himself as philosophically aligned with the original cypherpunk promise<\/a> while distancing himself from the market\u2019s practical realities.<\/p>\n

The fulcrum of his critique is surveillance. \u201cIt turns out that it is not, to this point\u2026 a way to conduct financial transactions privately at all. And that really freaks me out,\u201d he said. He extended that worry to the broader rise of digital money, warning that programmable account restrictions could be used as instruments of political discipline. \u201cI\u2019m really afraid of a digital currency because that is totalitarian in control. If you can punish people, if you can zero out their bank account and keep them from eating, you will have total obedience. That\u2019s totalitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson\u2019s skepticism is not directed at BTC\u2019s aspirations alone; he tied it to generational economics and political economy. He argued that young Americans, \u201ccompletely screwed in the job market,\u201d have turned to crypto as an upward-mobility vehicle.<\/p>\n

He said he hopes that promise pans out\u2014\u201cI\u2019m praying for them. I hope that\u2019s true\u201d\u2014but warned it could devolve into a familiar alliance of \u201cfinancial beneficiaries\u201d and \u201cthe politicians they control.\u201d As he put it: \u201cI fear that it will become, like so many other things in our country, a scam of sorts run by a coalition of the financial beneficiaries\u2026 and the politicians they control who use it to further their control of American society.\u201d<\/p>\n

On portfolio choices, Carlson was categorical: \u201cI\u2019m a gold buyer, and I\u2019ve been vindicated big time in that\u2026 It was good enough for the Phoenicians. It\u2019s good enough for me.\u201d He framed his approach as a discipline of staying within his circle of competence: \u201cIn general, don\u2019t get involved in anything I don\u2019t understand\u2026 I try to limit myself to things I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who Created Bitcoin?<\/h2>\n

The sharpest provocation came when the question turned to Satoshi Nakamoto<\/a>. For Carlson, the pseudonymous creator\u2014and the unmoved early coins commonly attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto\u2014remain a decisive obstacle.
\n\u201cNobody can explain to me who Satoshi was, the creator of Bitcoin, this mysterious guy who apparently died, but nobody knows who he was,\u201d he said, before delivering the claim that will dominate headlines: \u201cYou know, I grew up in D.C. primarily, in a government family. So CIA. That\u2019s my guess. Can\u2019t prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related Reading: Bitcoin Is \u2018Like Electronic Gold,\u2019 Says Federal Reserve Governor Waller<\/a><\/p>\n

He pressed the point as an investor\u2019s threshold question: \u201cYou\u2019re telling me to invest in something whose founder is, like, mysterious and has billions of dollars of unused Bitcoin. Like, what is that? And no one can answer the question, including some of the biggest holders of Bitcoin in the world, who I know personally. They\u2019re like, oh, it doesn\u2019t matter. What matters to me? Right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson\u2019s remarks interweave several long-running Bitcoin controversies. First is Bitcoin\u2019s privacy model. Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous; transaction histories are globally replicated and auditable by default, which is why surveillance concerns coexist with arguments that transparency is an integrity feature.<\/p>\n

Second is origin risk: the unresolved identity of Satoshi, the status of the early-mined coins that have not moved, and the governance implications of dormant supply suddenly entering circulation. Carlson elevates origin risk from a philosophical curiosity to a non-starter for capital allocation.<\/p>\n

For context, this is not the first time Carlson has floated the intelligence-origin theory around Bitcoin. At a private gathering during the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville in late July 2024, he similarly speculated<\/a> that \u201cobviously, it was the CIA,\u201d adding, \u201cI think we all know that,\u201d when pressed on Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

At press time, Bitcoin traded at $108,729.<\/p>\n

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