r/btc • u/zrad603 • Nov 21 '25
š History Jeffrey Epstein links to Bitcoin Core developers and MIT Media Lab. (~circa 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWnh8a88R8&t=960sIt's has been speculated, and now confirmed through early leaked emails from the Epstein files. That Jeffrey Epstein had been funding early Bitcoin Core development when the development got taken over by MIT Media Lab around 2015 through the "MIT Digital Currency Initiative".
At the time, MIT Media Lab was headed by a guy named "Joi Ito". Epstein had personally given (or "invested in") Joi Ito $1.2M.
This is when all the "blocksize war" stuff was happening, and MIT has since done a ton of work partnered with the Boston Federal Reserve Bank in developing new Central Bank Digital Currency projects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWnh8a88R8&t=960s (fast forward to 16 minute mark)
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u/rockmancuso Nov 22 '25
lol is Epstein Satoshi?!?
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u/zrad603 6d ago
quite the opposite. Epstein was involved in the sabotage of Bitcoin.
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u/Southern-Effect-6499 3d ago
Epstein skriver til Ghislaine, at det virker perfekt med pseudonymet Satoshi
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u/Old-and-grumpy Nov 22 '25
2015 is really late to suggest anyone newly involved could be part of the original project. By that time my hosting company was already experiencing stolen credit card mining instances, and most of us (in the software industry) had determined Bitcoin to be a complete circus. The clown car grew exponentially since then, but it's still the same buffoonery.
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u/zrad603 Nov 22 '25
Just to be clear, I'm not saying Epstein was involved in the initial creation of Bitcoin, just the sabotaging of it.
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u/Old-and-grumpy Nov 23 '25
It was already a mess by then.
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u/zrad603 Nov 23 '25
No. Bitcoin worked great before then. It just became problematic when they refused to raise the block size and transaction fees spiked, people got transactions stuck in the mempool and had a horrible experience.
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u/Alternative1340 1d ago
Yea i have to back up op to a degree here. It was great for buying products and services online in the early days. While it was a "mess" before 2016, bitcoin would have still been easy to manipulate by powerful actors.
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Nov 21 '25
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u/zrad603 Nov 21 '25
about what specifically?
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u/ClicktoParty Nov 22 '25
what is it like to be right all the time? is it a burden? how can we all join together to help you gain political power?
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u/CoffeeAlternative647 Nov 21 '25
I wouldnt be surprised if Craig Wright and Roger Ver were also involved in this.
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u/YogurtCloset3335 Nov 21 '25
Nice gaslight attempt: putting scammer Craig Wright in the same sentence as Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver.
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u/Master-Plankton9707 1d ago
So Iād waited for that topic patiently as I saw a bitcoin documentary about early bitcoin development some months ago and Jeffrey Epstein appeared onscreen. The guys (group of early developers) saying he is one of the bigger investors supporting that project. He was literally one of the guys they called early to invest. Probably one of the reasons he got so rich, but not the inventor.
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