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That would be a coincidence since Bitcoin was created by a single college kid.
But I've seen SN's website a few years before 2022 when I figured out his identity and Putin knowing his identity would not be surprising considering what was on his main page.
What stuff is being said about in the Epstein files?
Basically, Epstein was the manager of Putin's wealth.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01683874.pdf
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13164-jeffrey-epstein-employed-a-private-hacker-new-documents-reveal#%3A%7E%3Atext=Who+was+Jeffrey+Epstein%27s+personal%2Cacquired+by+CrowdStrike+in+2017
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/informant-told-fbi-that-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker/
Epstein had some connection to REDACTED from MIT Media Lab and I think that’s Joi Ito.
Epstein tried repeatedly to set up a meeting to sell Putin on the idea of bitcoin in 2014.
That particular meeting fell apart, because Epstein realized it would look terrible to visit Putin so soon after the shootdown of MH17. But I wouldn't be shocked if they did successfully meet sometime later.
Some people have joked that the only practical use case for bitcoin is to make financial crimes much easier. But what if that's not a bug, but a feature? Perhaps the whole objective of bitcoin's invention was to make financial crimes easier for Putin and the Russian mob.
Ito introduced Epstein to Jeremy Rubin (core bitcoin dev), which turned into Epstein directly funding Rubin. Search for "Jeremy Rubin" in the files and you'll find checks to him, docs about the formation of "Deploy Capital LLC", potentially backed with Peter Thiel who was trying to invest in Level One and Bitmain. Iozzo was involved in that stuff too: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01005773.pdf
So if that's all true, is bitcoin just a bunch of Putin's money? Nothing here is conclusive, but it isn't so far fetched anymore, either.
But suddenly, this bizzare email exchange makes some sense. Epstein and Ito were panicking about the feds tracking down Putin's wealth, because they knew following the money would lead right back to them.
Also, now we might know where Epstein got his mystery billions! Because they weren't his billions, they were Putin's.
Don't know about bitcoint but Epstein sure seems like someone's project and Trump is one of the fruits of that project. When Epstein became a liability to the project (i.e him giving names would destroy all the leverage the project owner has), he was conveniently suicided.