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New project Cruzbit was released and subsequently went quiet (https://cruzb.it/)) although still alive and well.

The conspiracy theory begins here:

https://i.imgur.com/XKEpUTh.jpg

That link takes you to the whitepaper of ICTP https://ictp.io/ictp-whitepaper.pdf

It is related to a new project Kalix. (www.kalix.io)

At the time it was posted in the Cruzbit discord, it was even more obscure than it currently is - which is pretty much unknown as nothing has even been released yet (only a github).

Here is where it gets interesting though...

Looking into Wei Dai you might have known he was working on a project called Mercatoria. Sadly, the website for Mercatoria doesn't work anymore. Weird right?

Well... When you search more on Wei Dai you end up on his linked in that mentions Mercatoria again: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-dai-b0b6984/

All well and good.

Click through to check out Mercatoria's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexmercatoria/about/

Where it gets truly weird is when you click on the link to Mercatoria here, it sends you to https://ictp.io/ - the WHITEPAPER/PROJECT mentioned by the Cruzbit dev at a time when very few even knew it existed.

wtf?!

Some additional and admittedly v circumstantial evidence:
1. Wei Dai is notoriously private/anon
2. Cruzbit dev is notoriously private/anon (to a fault imo)
3.Cruzbit is built to be "very much like Bitcoin, but with most of the confusing, and extraneous implementation details removed."
4. Wei Dai's "B-money" was never actually created, and Cruzbit has many similarities to Wei's original vision/ideas: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/wei_dai

You be the judge...