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Bill is a former self-admitted national spy for the United States, focused on signal and human intelligence (SIGINT/HUMINT). Bill entered the world of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin sometime around 2015; you can see here him tweeting about Bitcoin at DefCon.
https://twitter.com/scannell/status/629760076450918400
He has given talks about his former spy days, for example one of his more infamous talks is on the story of a secret NSA listening post in Berlin back in the 80's where he worked on SIGINT/HUMINT (make sure to watch the Q&A at the end where he gets roasted).
In this short clip from his Berlin talk, Bill is talking about being selective in his targeting and "smart spying" techniques.
https://streamable.com/g4lgw
Here he talks about using spying intelligence to control.
https://streamable.com/pxpb0
Well, what Bill and Blockstream don't want the general public to know is that Bill works closely with Blockstream on their own intelligence. You see, Blockstream is running it's own program in order to push their agenda so that they can control Bitcoin and profit from it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9187v4/reminder_core_devs_and_lightning_devs_are/e2w30nu/
Because they have so much investment capital and need to protect it at all costs in their quest to control Bitcoin, they have employed Bill as their consultant (agent) to run intelligence and counterintelligence operations on the Bitcoin community. When Samson Mow started working for Blockstream in 2017 as the "Chief Strategy Officer", Bill and Samson began working closely together. Here they are buddied up at a Deconomy 2018.

If lightning can work with multiple cryptocurrencies, why would someone open or close a channel via bitcoin instead of an altcoin with lower fees. Do they want bitcoin to be useless?
LN doesn't need BTC, it can be implemented on basically any chain derived from BTC code without too much issue. BTC however does need LN because they bet the whole farm on LN solving all of BTC's intentionally created problems so private corporations like Blockstream can insert themselves as rent-seekers. The plan was to destroy or capture BTC and vertically integrate the other LN supporting coins as privatized LN hub networks for the illusion of choice - this is a standard method to control an industry and public perception, like how when you buy groceries you think you have 1000s of options but in reality you're buying from one of 6 conglomerates. Bankers have done this kind of shit for centuries.