Is Bitcoin a gift from the gods?

The BBC produced this report in 2013...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22366064

People kind of took the "alien technology" thing and ran with it:

http://www.examiner.com/article/wake-up-bit-coin-is-an-alien-invasion

A little paranoid! But all the same it's an interesting thought. Look at the evidence. Nobody knows the true identity of the bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto (generally believed to be a pseudonym although, as widely discussed, Newsweek found and proudly paraded before us a protesting Satoshi Nakamoto from LA, who denied everything and clearly couldn't have written the Bitcoin White Paper); he appears on a forum, introduces his creation then fades away. His creation is a work of brilliance - profoundly innovative. Efforts to analyse the language of the White Paper SEEM to point to a suspect, but I tend to side with people who say it is reads more like the work of several authors. To me, the voice seems to wobble slightly - maybe the work of multiple authors working and discussing the text together. But equally it COULD be the work of a very good but not quite perfect auto-generation/translation...

If we were/are being observed by extraterrestrial beings, the internet would give them a remarkably powerful new way of observing our world and even influencing our culture. And if we are Not Alone, why wouldn't we expect to be of interest to our fellow citizens of the galaxy. I doubt it would be hard for them to engineer a gateway onto the internet. Flying up to a communications satellite and plugging something in would be a neat way - but a software hack would probably be just as easy! Just think of the massive entertainment that would be for an interested other-world civilisation! A lot more fun than watching us through a big telescope or flying down drones.

If bitcoin were an alien introduction, I'd suspect they meant it as a gift to the people of earth. Maybe they are thinking we need a bit less national government on this planet of ours and more freedom for people to trade creatively with like-minded others around the world. I would second that emotion...