The files show Epstein invested $3 million in Coinbase in 2014 alongside the crypto promoter Brock Pierce, at a point when the company’s co-founder Fred Ehrsam sought a meeting; half the stake later sold for about $15 million. A fund Epstein co-owned with Joi Ito put roughly $500,000 into Blockstream. [1][2][3]
Ito’s emails credit gift money with underwriting MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, which in 2015 became a principal funding source for bitcoin’s core developers after their foundation faltered. That is a real, uncomfortable fact for a movement built on distrust of insiders. See MIT and the Media Lab. [1]
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