Recently, a clip excerpted from the well-known interview program 《Jack Neel Podcast》 has gone viral on the X platform. In the video, a person known as Professor Jiang, a Chinese-Canadian teacher currently living in Beijing, Jiang Xueqin (Jiang Xueqin), claims that Bitcoin was intentionally created by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a tool for surveillance and the transfer of gray/illicit funds, sparking widespread discussion within the cryptocurrency community.
CIA created Bitcoin: does Professor Jiang’s “game theory” walkthrough point to the government?
In episode 86 of 《Jack Neel Podcast》, Professor Jiang systematically explains his theory that “the CIA created Bitcoin.” He builds his conclusion step by step around three core questions:
Who has the technical capability to build Bitcoin?
Who can benefit from its public ledger?
Why would someone publish this system for free?
Professor Jiang says his answers always point in the same direction: the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
When you analyze all possibilities using game theory (game theory), you ultimately end up with only one answer: the deep state, i.e., the CIA.
Professor Jiang points out that DARPA—back when it helped build ARPANET (the predecessor of the public internet)—had long already demonstrated how military institutions can promote strategic technologies by wrapping them in “civilian innovation.” In his view, Bitcoin is merely an extension of this logic. At the same time, Bitcoin’s public ledger on the blockchain is not a privacy tool—instead, it is a permanent, traceable record of global transactions that intelligence agencies can investigate without any limits; and its mining mechanism, in turn, provides the CIA with a steady stream of “black money” channels outside oversight.
He even cites the Winklevoss twins, the founders of Gemini, after their settlement with Facebook, when they used a large settlement payout to get into Bitcoin early, implying that there must have been insider information behind it.
From lecturer to prophet: who is Professor Jiang?
Jiang Xueqin’s day job is as a teacher at a Moon-Landing School in Beijing, and he also runs a YouTube channel called 《Predictive History》, where he is widely known online under the name “Professor Jiang.” Using game theory as the core, he is accustomed to making predictions about the direction of contemporary politics and the economy based on historical patterns and logic.
What truly made him widely known is that he predicted in advance that Trump would win the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and then the escalation of the military conflict between the United States and Iran. These two “predictions that came true” pushed his YouTube channel subscribers to 940,000 and his Instagram followers to over one million. Domestic and international media have also reported on and interviewed him multiple times.
Criticism from the crypto community: from the whitepaper to the spirit of cypherpunks
However, Professor Jiang’s theory has been quickly rebutted in the cryptocurrency community. First, the core design philosophy of Bitcoin’s 2008 whitepaper is to eliminate the involvement of third parties, which runs directly counter to the centralized control logic required by any government surveillance framework. In addition, Bitcoin’s code is fully open source; for 17 years, it has been voluntarily maintained by a global community—this development path does not fit a scenario in which a single institution manipulates it from within.
From an ideological context, Bitcoin’s origins trace back to the cypherpunk (Cypherpunk) movement, and the contributions of people like Hal Finney are supported by publicly available records, with the timeline coming earlier than any U.S. intelligence agencies’ attention to decentralized digital currency.
On the other hand, from the questions and explanations Professor Jiang gives in interviews about technical aspects such as mining, decentralization mechanisms, and on-chain privacy, it is evident that his understanding of Bitcoin is built on an incorrect version.
Apocalyptic prediction: the collapse of human civilization from 2045 to 2060
On the other hand, in interviews, Professor Jiang also makes predictions about humanity’s future. He warns that before and around 2045, the Earth will experience an unprecedented severe systemic disaster, with the trigger possibly being a devastating blow caused by geomagnetic pole shifts leading to a weakening of the magnetic field. He believes these events will paralyze infrastructure in major cities worldwide, leading to the collapse of the existing system of nation-states and a regression into fragmented city-states from the era of past empires.
And by 2060, he predicts that humanity will face a historic fork in the road: those who hold power will use AI to create an “AI God” to restore centralized power, and some people will willingly accept chip implantation in exchange for a peaceful order; others will refuse technological enslavement and will continue to advocate for the spirit of human exploration and free will. Of course, this apocalyptic reasoning from Professor Jiang also lacks documentary support; it is all based on his historical comparisons and his logical inferences.
Looking back, the conspiracy theory that “the government created Bitcoin” is nothing new, and it is often backed by citing NSA cryptography research from the 1990s. Behind the global attention his statement has drawn, perhaps it only reflects a mismatch in cognition that Bitcoin critics often have.
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