Who really steered Bitcoin’s early development.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-02-02 09:09
Who really steered Bitcoin’s early development.
A resurfaced 2015 email suggests power over BTC devs may not have been as neutral as we like to believe.
This one is deeply unsettling. A letter from 2015 allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein openly discusses funding — and control — over key $BTC developers. Not influence. Control. His words.
At the time, Bitcoin had just five core developers deciding on code changes. Their funding ran through the Bitcoin Foundation, which later collapsed. According to Epstein, that collapse created a vacuum. And into that vacuum stepped grant money, channeled via the MIT Media Lab.
The most disturbing line? Epstein allegedly writes: “We control the developers” — calling it a “big win”. If authentic, this isn’t about conspiracy — it’s about leverage. Developers don’t need to be evil to be constrained. Funding shapes priorities. Always has.
Does this mean Bitcoin is compromised? No. The protocol survived forks, wars, ego battles, and eventually escaped that era. But the myth of a perfectly clean, untouched origin? That takes a hit. Bitcoin is antifragile — but its early years were human, political, and messy.
Decentralization wasn’t born pure. It was fought for. And that distinction matters. Froid dans le dos. 🧊
#bitcoin #btc #history #decentralization #epstein #crypto #power #narrative
A resurfaced 2015 email suggests power over BTC devs may not have been as neutral as we like to believe.
This one is deeply unsettling. A letter from 2015 allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein openly discusses funding — and control — over key $BTC developers. Not influence. Control. His words.
At the time, Bitcoin had just five core developers deciding on code changes. Their funding ran through the Bitcoin Foundation, which later collapsed. According to Epstein, that collapse created a vacuum. And into that vacuum stepped grant money, channeled via the MIT Media Lab.
The most disturbing line? Epstein allegedly writes: “We control the developers” — calling it a “big win”. If authentic, this isn’t about conspiracy — it’s about leverage. Developers don’t need to be evil to be constrained. Funding shapes priorities. Always has.
Does this mean Bitcoin is compromised? No. The protocol survived forks, wars, ego battles, and eventually escaped that era. But the myth of a perfectly clean, untouched origin? That takes a hit. Bitcoin is antifragile — but its early years were human, political, and messy.
Decentralization wasn’t born pure. It was fought for. And that distinction matters. Froid dans le dos. 🧊
#bitcoin #btc #history #decentralization #epstein #crypto #power #narrative
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