Former NSA employee Edward Snowden, renowned for exposing the US government’s large-scale surveillance program, tweeted that he predicts a certain country is secretly buying Bitcoin as a modern alternative to gold, and this will be revealed this year.
In response to this prediction, members of the cryptocurrency community jokingly suggest that the government will print a large amount of money to buy Bitcoin.
Given Snowden’s past revelations about the US surveillance program, his mention of being “exposed” in the tweet also raises suspicions about whether he is going to come forward with more disclosures.