Since I’m being tagged for my take here it is. I don’t know anything though. I’m basing this on what I’ve read on the internet. - I don’t know Adam back - I think I spoke to Austin hill once may have been his brother Jeremy though can’t remember - from the emails it seems like they were both on Epstein island at some point in 2014 - “Andy back” is most likely Adam back - I believe the reason they were there was to raise funds for Blockstream - Reid Hoffman was also a Blockstream investor - Reid Hoffman was a known visitor to the island as well - Epstein then put money into Blockstream and divested it sometime later - it is unclear why this divestment occurred - I believe Epstein frequently had various types of guests on the island - some who participated in sex trafficking, some who did not - my hunch is that Austin and Adam did not participate in sexual assault of minors. - that’s just my guess though obviously I don’t know what’s up - I think both were probably aware of epsteins prior arrest and knew he was sketchy but were willing to engage with sketchy people during their roadshow because there were many sketchy people at that time That’s about all I know. I am not an arbiter of truth in this regard but that’s my take as of now.

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You know what? I thought about it and @npub17a8s...z22e is right. I shouldn’t equivocate on this. I don’t know what happened and I shouldn’t guess. I’m going to rescind that part.
IIRC there are other emails that show Blockstream asked Ito to divest because their fund was also investing in Ripple and Stellar.
The incentive test is the filter: if Epstein controlled Bitcoin, why didn't he use that leverage when facing life imprisonment? Code is open-source, no backdoors found in 15 years, Satoshi's coins haven't moved. Every decentralized protocol gets origin conspiracy theories because mysterious founders make people uncomfortable. What specific mechanism would 'control' even look like in an open protocol?