and that's the thing to remember: they aren't denying it now, but they are controlling the damage. i'm sure they burned gigawatts of google gemini credits to craft their selection of what to release, in order to provide only information that suits their specific agenda. flushing adam back and blockstream seems to be one of their objectives. but i bet there is more dirt, on other characters in the picture that have been held back, because the agenda of those witting or unwiting agents of their will, they want to keep it in play. so, to pile on top of that selective release, they will also promote a propaganda narrative that anyone who diverges from their narrative is "crazy" and "did you get dropped on your head as a baby" and other forms of ridicule, which they then use to activate the normies to continue the confinement of facts from the voting population. it's insidious. doesn't change the fact that blockstream absolutely is run by psychos who got involved with running a baby-selling business, who are muddying the waters of bitcoin (blockstream was one of the biggest promoters of the quantum vulnerability that is the taproot pre-spend pubkey reveal and not coincidentally, CTV covenants). and those are the real agendas going on. so, they threw blockstream under the bus, to divert attention away from their ongoing operations. as you say, classic limited hangout, but on a scale that is unprecedented, both in terms of the data dump and the circuitous, confusing disinformation hidden behind that, that is about hiding their continuing efforts to compromise bitcoin and turn it into bitcoin - in - name - only.