Tucker Carlson, the renowned host of the Tucker Carlson Show and a former Fox News political commentator, has stated that he won’t invest in Bitcoin. According to Tucker Carlson, the asset was created by a “mysterious guy who apparently died.” He made this known at a Turning Point event honoring late political activist Charlie Kirk.
During the event, Carlson told attendees that he avoids investing in things he cannot fully understand, especially those with questionable origins. “I try to limit myself to things I understand,” he said, adding that nobody has been able to explain who Satoshi Nakamoto really was. “You know, I grew up in DC primarily, in a government family. So, CIA. That’s my guess. Can’t prove it.”
Carlson Tucker says the CIA created BTC
During his speech, Carlson questioned the logic behind investing in a digital currency created by an unidentified figure with access to billions of dollars worth of untouched coins. “You’re telling me to invest in something whose founder is 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,” he told the audience.
Carlson claims that some of his acquaintances with investments in the assets have always brushed away his theories, claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin’s identity, is irrelevant. However, Tucker Carlson claims that things like that matter to him. Carlson has previously shared the same claims about Bitcoin during the private Trump-supporting event in Nashville, joking that the asset was obviously created by the CIA.
Despite his reservations about the digital asset, Carlson claims that he loves Bitcoin and what it stands for, especially the financial autonomy feature that its users enjoy. “I don’t want what I buy or sell to be tracked. I don’t want my money to be tracked. It’s nobody’s business. I pay my taxes … I don’t care if it was the CIA. It doesn’t matter. The idea is still a great idea,” Carlson said.
Meanwhile, the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, has remained one of the internet’s most enduring mysteries. The pseudonymous figure vanished from public communication in 2011, after sending a final message to collaborators that read, “I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future.” Over the years, netizens have been trying to uncover who Nakamoto might be, or if he is still alive.
Some Reddit users have speculated that Satoshi could be a collective of cryptographers rather than one individual. According to a report by Cryptopolitan, Satoshi Nakamoto remains one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. According to analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, the Bitcoin creator is currently sitting on more than one million Bitcoin, which is currently valued at around $120 billion in today’s market.
