It seems they're a Bitcoin core developer, I'm sure they're aware of the issues and asterisks.
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Unfortunately all of that is still classified but congresspeople who have been briefed have been sufficiently motivated to introduce legislation to investigate further (as Chuck Schumer has recently done in the Senate).
Western science perhaps is catching up with thinkers like Deleuze, Foucault, Hegel, etc which they have scorned.