Thanks for your 2 cents, biophil. Let me add 2 more satoshi to remain in the spirit of crypto currencies.
Your first point (half a cent), I was referring to the blockchain concept, distributed processing and distributed storage and the use of RSA to solve the problems that come with this. I think that is very clever. Have you read the white paper?
Your second point (completing your first cent). The Federal Reserve rents rectangles of paper to the US government at 1% of the value they print on that paper. (I wish I could do that) The government has to go back to the FED to get that 1% that they owe them. This is a system that inflates money and transfers value to the FED. For every USD the government initially rented, they now owe the FED 2.81 USD. That is pretty well done, considering that all they needed to begin with was paper and a printer. The USD, people believe, is backed by America's GDP, but today we have to subtract a nearly 20 trillion USD debt from that, resulting in a negative value.... see USdebtclock There comes a point when the net result of all US industries combined isn't enough to pay the interest on the total debt, which means bankruptcy. I do not know how far this point is today, but I think we have passed that point already. I think the 2008 bank crisis was in reality the first sign of the failing USD.
Your third half a cent: I have found a few additional facts: The difficulty needs to increase to maintain a solve-time of about 10 minutes while more CPU power is added to crunch the RSA algorithms. I also read that the initial designer awarded himself 1 million BTC, making him almost a billionaire today.
Your final remark: I am not saying that the CIA is behind this and I agree that it may be a dude by the name of Satoshi. But I think it is more likely to be a group of people and they may have some connection with the people behind the FED.