Cryptocurrencies, in my opinion, is the project initated by the NSA to prepare the ground for a centralised, single global electronic currency, which has permissions that enable the 'Authorities' to revoke your access to your funds, if you should happen to say something they don't like.
However, I believe that Satoshi was not employed by the NSA, but rather a rogue, who devised a system that solved most of the flaws in the NSA's flawed models, which by the way also inspired the recent anonymising ZKP based protocols (there is an ancient paper by the NSA dating back to the late 90s that lays it all out, in a rough, and totally preliminary architecture design).
Thus, it is my view that in fact what has been going on with Steem, is an attempt to discredit open blockchains, in favour of controlled, corporate/government blockchains. Notice how every other country is announcing blockchain systems for all kinds of things.
This is just a warmup. Steem embodies the core concepts, in a muddled, and corrupt form, of what the 100% anarchic free blockchain will look like. I am working on what I think it should be, once I'm done with playing the Adversary against the corruption I am certain exists. And possibly even, connections to Intelligence organisations.
I've considered this kind of thing myself, but in nothing like such depth. It does seem unlikely that open blockchains would have been allowed to flourish unless they were 'under control'. I'd be interested in any links you have to help confirm or refute your hypothesis, and if you write a book/paper at some stage, I'd like to read it.
Are you anonymous, or do you have a public web presence?
You really post some dark shit.. xD
Where can I read more about Dawn?
This is very interesting. My father who passed away talked about this and I always thought he was the only one who thought this way and was possibly losing his mind. Always keep a little gold on hand.