It's sort of a stretch, but nobody knows who Satoshi is and many of the major players are American. The Bitcoin Foundation is American, the first user[1] is American, the predecessor to Bitcoin was developed by an American[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

I can see how that's confusing. I was thinking in broader terms of the private sector with that one. Although there is American innovation happening there, it's certainly not the only place.