Thread by @Cryptadamist

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A thread where i will using the power of ctrl-F to dig up epstein emails about all things crypto.

Let's start with @JeremyRubin, the founder of a bitcoin research org called Judica and a player in the ill fated MIT digital currency initiative.

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There's what looks like a 2015 pitch sheet (?) from #BlockchainCapital, co-founded by epstein's pal #BrockPierce who would go on to help launch Tether (a nation state sized money laundering machine) and EOS (1 of the biggest scams in history, ~$4bn)
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…

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Disgraced former head of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito seen here telling Epstein that crypto is "like the internet" but the core team is in need of a bailout, which he used "gift funds" to "win this round".

epstein says "gavin is clever"

were those Epstein's "gift funds"?

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Steven Sinofsk seen emailing Epstein in 2013 (!) about the need to stop "prematurely regulation" of crypto, which "[was] particularly effective coming from a long-time activist against child pornography."

(was Welcome To Video already happening?)

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Someone sent Epstein the contents of a book titled "The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of Networks" which appears to be an early attempt and ethernet occultism.

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Some very bizarrely parsed text that might link Steve Bannon to the #SlugsOfZug in switzerland or might just be two articles smashed together that have nothing to do w/each other.

cc @intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn An email from Epstein to Epstein containing an article about Epstein, featuring a decent cast of "cripto critters" as Epstein might call them:

- Brock Pierce
- Larry Summers
- Qataris
- Kairat Kelimbeto, head of Kazakhstan's central bank (Kazakhstan is huge in crypto)

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵14/Ω
wherein Epstein and his assistant discuss Overstock weirdo and J6tard Patrick Byrne's attempt to go all in on crypto (Tezos?) and conclude that Byrne is a "flake" and a "fantasist" who "tried to convince me was with CIA"

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵15/Ω
I will now take an intermission to point out that I wrote not one but two articles over on The Blogging Site That Shall Not Be Named about how Epstein was very obviously more connected to crypto's development than most people seem to understand.
cryptadamus.substack.com/p/epsteins-arr…

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Wherein Steve Bannon sends Epstein emails containing articles about Steve Bannon's tireless advocacy for crypto as a means to destabilize the world order, which I guess he planned to with the #PatriotPay memecoin grift he used to rob his MAGA fans.

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"When the govt changed hands they found all these Chinese 'loans' designed to create ownership through a side door"

she then sends a link to a NYP article about Tether founder brock pierce along w/comment on "new china strategy".

you know who else had "chinese loans"?

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵17/Ω
Epstein explains that he thinks crypto is "super dangerous" to the banking system and gives a bit of detail on why he thought Facebook's weird crypto initiative (Libra) "violates BARTER principles!" @davidgerard

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Journalist Lesley Groff warms up Epstein by explaining she writes articles about VR and psychedelic drugs and then suggests "there is mileage to be gained by quoting you in a story about how proper implementation of cryptocurrency might solve financial corruption issues.

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Either Epstein didn't like crypto or he had reasons to want people to believe he didn't like crypto.

> "crypto needs to be thought of similar to the internet. intl agreements. coordinated understandings. otherwise it is a ponzi scheme outside of the law"

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Epstein predicts the rise of stablecoins (sort of) because "the dollar [is the] only thing to own".

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Apparently friends sent Epstein the article where Brock Pierce's sordid history with DEN Entertainment and the kind of thing that was yesterday called pedophilia but is now downgraded to ephebophilia by @megynkelly and others is discussed like 10 times

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Trials and tribulations of an Epstein threadoor

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Trials and tribulations of an Epstein threadoor, part 2

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In 2015 Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) sent Epstein a collection of interesting articles including one titled "Why I'm betting big on Bitcoin"

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Reporter sent Epstein a long list of questions for fact checking.

In order, and with the implication there might be some relationship, she asks about:

- Qataris
- Turkey
- Israel stan & friend of netanyahu Brock Pierce & bitcoin
- Larry Summers (board of DCG)

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It's 2012 and Epstein seems to be dictating a guestlist for "2 seminars: MONEY and POWER". the attendees he's considering:

- marc andreessen (a16z)
- bezos
- sergey brin + larry page (GOOG)
- bill gates
- thiel
- michael ovitz (DIS)
- Boris Nikolic (epstein's executor)

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ok so this is not crypto and it's not new information but i for one was unfamiliar with the fact that the other wealthy sex pest who hanged himself in a jail cell (jean-luc brunel) had sued epstein in 2015.

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Bitfinexed @crypto1nfern0 @OccamiCrypto @RhoRider @molly0xFFF @SilvermanJacob @BenFoldy

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not salacious but kind of curious that donald trump v1.0's anti-crypto bleetstorm came out just a few weeks after he went to howard lutnick's house for dinner in 2019.

at the time i don't think lutnick was working w/tether yet but i think he might have been into bitcoin.

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn i'm just gonna leave this here:

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵26/Ω
...and this.

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵27/Ω
Epstein + Bannon discussing that they need to appeal to the US treasury dept for "advice" about "cripto coin issues" is thing in the emails that's haunting me.

[dons tinfoil hat] Epstein + Bannon's "china strategy" was miles guo's HimalayaCoin

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i guess the "Bannon on the Road to Zug" article was in fact a real thing. the many behind the FJB and PatriotPay tokens appointed himself a crypto thought leader, talking some bullshit in Zug, and everyone was like "sounds good to me"

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Epstein's emails about "china strategy" are quite interesting... he forwarded this to steve bannon so it seems like epstein was subscribed to a google group called "Fanell's Red Star Rising" where people scare each other with news of china's rise to dominance

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"Peter is best for currency... Shall we do Peter Thiel for drinks then?"

- Ian Osborne to Epstein in 2012 in an email that also mentions the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi and Epstein's potential investment in Jawbone (phone mic/earpiece co. I think)

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Epstein emailing Thiel directly 4 years later in 2016 talking about "donalds fund raiser (sic)", Colony Capital, and Tom Barrack.

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Sep 2014: Epstein inviting Thiel to meet Woody Allen in 2014.

Nov. 2018: Epstein to Peter Thiel: "Dec[ember] visit me Caribbean"

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"List for Bannon Steve" - Jeffrey Epstein, June 2019

- Dubai
- Peter Thiel
- Prince Andrews
- Reid Hoffman
- Joi Ito
- Barak (Ehud?)
- Kashoogi (Khashoggi?)

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn 🧵34/Ω
Epstein to Sultan Bin Sulayem:

"she is your second biggest fan... iam the first. i sell dubai, to its detractors"

Dubai hadn't really started its journey to becoming the crypto capital of the world back in 2009 when this was sent in 2009.

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Jeffrey, 2018: "Im traveling to see terry and antonio in dubai and bahrain"

2018 is right around when bahrain became a major player in bitcoin mining (bc there's a lot of extra hydropower there) and i guess launched #Rain.

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/docum…

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August 2018 Peter Thiel's in town again.

Epstein refers to noted FTX investor / all around crypto grifter Anthony "The Mooch" @Scaramucci as "a snake".

To which his assistant replies "No, a snake is clever, more like a leaky garden hose that looks like a snake"

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ok so we can be sure Epstein & Bannon are talking about crypto in the context of campaign donations + foreign donors.

jeff's asking about "brocks people" (Tether / EOS / Binance bros) then saying he found right wing swiss crypto bros in Zug (#SlugsOfZug) @intel_jakal

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Scaramucci 🧵42/Ω
this appears to be the Jeffrey Wernick cited by Epstein as "the most solid [crypto bro] on the right" who is "tied into the 'swiss' guys" (#slugsOfZug)

note scare quotes around the word "swiss". Zug is in switzerland but the bros in Zug seem to not be swiss.

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Scaramucci 🧵43/Ω
hard to be 100% sure but i'm like 98% sure this is a conversation between epstein and bannon about whether their coming crypto token will have "a christian component" and whether it should be "negotiable" (whatever that means)

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Scaramucci 🧵44/Ω
2017: Epstein sending a link to a "How to explain zero knowledge protocols to your children" PDF right before a meeting.

"zero knowledge proofs" are a real (and trendy) thing in crypto.

also talks about a "Hosain" & says USAID is a CiA plot that must be destroyed

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal @Scaramucci but it could def. be bannon in some of the messages. i went through a ton of the messages and it's definitely plausible that it's not always the same person.

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal @Scaramucci IIRC there's also at least one message where the person running the [e-mail] account at the time makes a reference to "back in france, our macron" or something long those lines. i was thinking maybe an ethnically persian, possibly relgiously jewish expat family?

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal there are definitely a couple things i read that make me doubt jeeitunes was epstein, namely the family in iran/etc things i think i read (epstein's from brooklyn) but i redid the reformatting to take my editorial opinion out of it for now
documentcloud.org/documents/2628…

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal > jeeitunes: "He was at bear for a while"

might indicate jeeitunes is epstein (epstein was a bear stearns guy).

> jeeitunes: "Can you have one of your boys send Trump@war"

they talk about "trump@war" a bunch, prolly a bannon email address?

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal i'm increasingly convince you're right and i mislabeled epstein and bannon, but then i read what would be bannon emailing about cryptography and ZK-proofs and i'm sceptical again

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal i wish i had the willpower to recreate the bottom 3rd of the thread with corrected screenshots but i'm not sure i can do it.

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal so i've positively identified 2 files as bannon.

this log really looks like bannon - who else would china write a Global Times editorial about? but searching for

site: "bannon" before:2020-01-01 after:2018-01-01

yielded nothing. any ideas? globaltimes.cn

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal ok nvm about that file - was able to confirm it from the timing of bannon's comments about his time with Le Pen's Front Nationale. but the other files are still a mystery (but one i think shoudn't be too hard to crack with a little bid of time bounded google searching)

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Scaramucci 🧵47/Ω
if you want to read the beautified, correctly labeled 9compared to what's above) horrorshow of epstein's iMessage history 👇

and just to reiterate, in the above screenshots:

* "jeeitunes" = epstein
* "Epstein" = redacted

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal we used AI and were able to identify like 30 of the convos as bannon and a few others (michael wolff, stacey plaskett, etc).
here's the latest file:

(unfortunately i can't update the @documentcloud link in place so use the new link for latest).documentcloud.org/documents/2628…

@intel_jakal @ImDrinknWyn @Scaramucci correction: it was actually Bannon who referred to @Scaramucci as a "snake"

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Somehow I missed a truly incredible txt msg chain where Epstein and Melanie Walker, indulging the deluded fantasies about tHe bLoCkChAiN everyone took seriously in 2017, talk about "bitcoin health".

Epstein is back on his ZKProofs tip.
wired.com/story/jeffrey-…

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal @documentcloud maybe not so speculative

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal @documentcloud latest below. conversations are now also sorted by their start date
documentcloud.org/documents/2628…

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Deanonymized crypto grifter Anthony Scaramucci. Epstein texted him to say "I'd really like Donald to triumph". I guess Epstein was #MAGA.

they don't discuss crypto but they do call John Dowd a fat loser before alluding to being friendly with Trump aide Hope Hicks.

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Bannon expresses disbelief that china is somehow "stronger than when we started?" (started what?)

epstein: "Argentina next to collapse"
bannon: "needs a populist"
epstein: "soon to be the best investment of a lifetime"

once again this duo was way ahead of the curve

@ImDrinknWyn @intel_jakal @documentcloud because of poor redaction practices i was able to unearth an additional 5 or so identifications.

here's the counts by sender right now (spoiler: it's almost all bannon lol... and the republicans released this data. might be some infighting...)

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/2628…

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Bannon explains to his bestie Epstein that his real job is press/PR "ops" and insists someone is running a "sophisticated op" against Epstein.

> "It's an op dude-- I do this for a living -- the pieces that are dropping [on you] are deeply researched"

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Epstein explaining to Bannon that chinese crypto grifter / intelligence operative Miles Guo is a very dangerous and violent man. The kind of man even Jeffrey Epstein is afraid of.

Bannon: "[Guo is] like Trump an instrument."