Ripple’s ties to Ashton Kutcher, Ron Burkle, Opus Dei, PayPal mafia and Jeffrey Epstein’s elite network

This thread summarizes the intricate web of connections between Ripple, a blockchain company, and influential figures in finance, technology, and controversial networks, including Ashton Kutcher, Ron Burkle, the PayPal Mafia, Opus Dei, and Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. Through A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures, Kutcher and Burkle invested in Ripple and related ventures like Mintable and BitGo, alongside PayPal Mafia members such as Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, who also backed Ripple-affiliated firms like OpenAI and ConsenSys. These investments intersect with Epstein’s network through Brock Pierce, Tether’s co-founder and Epstein’s crypto advisor, who attended his 2011 Mindshift event, and figures like Bill Clinton, listed in Epstein’s “black book” and a Ripple Swell conference speaker. Epstein’s ties extend to tech through funding OpenCog and connections to MIT Media Lab, while Opus Dei’s influence appears via investments in Ripple’s early partner Banco Santander and Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies, linked to Vatican-associated fraud with Raffaello Follieri. The connections highlight a convergence of cryptocurrency innovation, venture capital, and elite social networks, raising questions about transparency, influence, and potential conflicts of interest in Ripple’s rise. These ties suggest Ripple’s growth leveraged not only technological innovation but also strategic alliances within powerful financial and tech ecosystems, some tainted by Epstein’s shadow. The point of these connections is to illustrate how Ripple’s network spans legitimate business, controversial figures, and opaque financial dealings, potentially amplifying its influence while inviting scrutiny.

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Ron Burkle, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and A-Grade Investments, Part I

Ron Burkle is an American billionaire businessman. His net worth is estimated at around $2-3 billion, built through grocery chain mergers and investments in tech startups and sports, including part ownership of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Burkle, Ashton Kutcher, and Guy Oseary co-founded A-Grade Investments in 2010, a venture capital fund focused on tech startups, turning the $30 million fund into $250 million. In 2012, they raised additional capital from billionaires like David Geffen and Mark Cuban. David Geffen co-founded Digital Entertainement Network with Brock Pierce, founder of Blockchain Capital, co-founder of Tether, and Jeffrey Epstein’s personal crypto adviser who attended his Mindshift event on Little St. James Island in 2011.

A-Grade Investments investments:

Vicarious, an AI company founded in 2010 by D. Scott Phoenix and Dileep George, was based in San Francisco, focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for robots, using brain-inspired computational principles. Its technology aimed to automate complex tasks like kitting, palletizing, and packaging, with applications in manufacturing and e-commerce. Vicarious raised $250 million over eight funding rounds, with its latest Series D round in 2017 for $50 million. Investors included high-profile names like Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, and A-Grade Investments (Ron Burkle, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s fund). The company was acquired by Alphabet’s Intrinsic in April 2022 for an undisclosed amount. Alphabet is the parent company of Google, a seed investor of Ripple and focused on AI advancement, including DeepSeek and Gemini. Marc Benioff and Ashton Kutcher both funded Mintable, an NFT platform backed by Ripple’s Creator Fund. Other investors of Mintable include Animoca Brands, which also funded Polysign, a Ripple subsidiary (now defunct) and RIT (Rothschilds venture capital). RIT and George Soro’s Soros Fund Management are invested in Animoca Brands and Polysign as well. (More on these connections later).

Coincidentally, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, all funders in Vicarious, have their own ties to DARPA and the CIA:

Sam Altman held a position at DARPA before co-founding OpenAI, the leading AI company for LLM that has grown in the tens of billions of dollars, going from a “non-profit” to “for-profit” company. Reid Hoffman of PayPal mafia is a board member, and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are co-founders and investors in OpenAI, amongst others. Jeff Bezos grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, was a founding member of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed DARPA, where he worked on space technology and missile defense systems. DARPA, under Gise’s early influence, laid the groundwork for innovations like the internet (ARPAnet), voice recognition, and high-speed networking. Gise retired in 1968 to his Texas ranch, where he mentored a young Jeff Bezos. Peter Thiel’s Palantir company was funded by the CIA’s investment branch, In-Q-Tel and recieved many US government contracts since thier founding in 2003. Just one year prior to Palantir’s founding, a DARPA project called TIA (Total Information Awareness). Admiral, John Poindexter led TIA aimed at developing advanced data collection and analysis technologies to enhance national security by detecting and preventing terrorist threats. TIA sought to integrate vast datasets—financial transactions, travel records, communications, and more—using AI and data mining to identify patterns of potential terrorist activity. The program included tools like predictive modeling, biometric recognition, and real-time surveillance to create a comprehensive intelligence network. Public and congressional concerns over privacy violations and potential abuse led to significant backlash. Critics feared TIA’s broad surveillance capabilities could infringe on civil liberties, creating a "Big Brother" system. In 2003, Congress defunded TIA, effectively halting the program, though some components reportedly continued under classified projects or were redistributed to other agencies like the NSA. Coincidentally, Palantir was founded immediately after TIA was defunded. Peter Thiel also was the first outside funder and board member of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Facebook was founded the exact same day (February 2, 2004) as the day DARPA’s LifeLog was defunded. DARPA's LifeLog project, launched in 2003, aimed to create a system for collecting and analyzing an individual's daily activities, communications, and experiences to build a comprehensive digital record. The goal was to use AI to process data from emails, phone calls, locations, and other personal interactions to identify patterns, predict behaviors, and enhance decision-making, primarily for military applications like improving soldier performance or intelligence analysis. The project raised privacy concerns due to its potential for mass surveillance. LifeLog faced public and congressional scrutiny similar to the TIA program. Dustin Moskovitz, funder of Vicarious along with Thiel, Zuckerberg and Bezos, was a co-founder of Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg.

Like the above technocracts, Ashton Kutcher is likely a CIA asset/ agent. Ashton Kutcher has made several jokes (or hidden in plain sight truthful remarks) over the years about him being in the CIA. He has tweeted “Spent the afternoon picking the brain of a former CIA guy. It really makes you wonder if anything you come in contact w/ isn not manipulated.” He also posted an image on twitter drinking out of a coffee mug with the CIA logo on it and the caption”Just sending out a morning shout to the men and woman of the intelligence community that keep us safe and protect our country.” Kutcher has also been known to wear hats with the CIA logo and Freemason’s square and compass symbol. Kutcher has also testified in court that he, with the help of the CIA and FBI, helped save thousands of kids from human trafficking via his Thorn foundation. His foundation, Thorn, works closely with Palantir, a CIA (In-Q-Tel) funded AI congolmerate. Kutcher also has ties to many people in hollywood who were close with Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was a known intelligence asset for both CIA and Israel’s Mossad. He may have been tapped as an agent or planted in Hollywood by the CIA.

Dustin Moskovitz is a lead funder of Open Philanthropy Project. Two Open-AI employees, Helen Toner and Holden Karnofsky, are members of Open Philanthropy Project. Also, MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Group) gave a large donation to the project. MIRI members and largest donors include Elon Musk and Jed McCaleb, Ripple’s co-founder. MIRI also founded OpenCog, an open source AI platform that was funded by Jeffrey Epstein through his Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. Gino Yu and Ben Goertzel were leaders of OpenCog who received Epstein’s funding. Gino Yu also founded Dbrain, a company backed by Sam Altman through his Y Combinator.

Airbnb is one of the start-ups that A-Grade Investments made that boosted their fund’s value considerably. Airbnb was also backed by Sam Altman through his Y Combinator, Kevin Hartz, Jeff Bezos, and several PayPal mafia members such as Keith Rabois, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman. Silver Lake and Tiger Global are also investors. Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse is an advisor at Silver Lake and Tiger Global is a funder of Ripple. Silver Lake also invested in Skype, a company with funding from Ashton Kutcher. Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowtiz and Netscape encouraged Ashton Kutcher to invest in Skype early on, leading to one of his first and most successful startup investments.


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Ron Burkle, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and A-Grade Investments, Part II

To continue from the last post, A-Grade Investments helped fund BitGo, an institutional digital asset financial services company that provides clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens and has over $2 billion in assets in its wallet. The company's customer base includes cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, the companyintroduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, a qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets.

BitGo was founded by Ben Davenport, Mike Belshe and Will O'Brien. Ben Davenport has been a close friend and collegue of Brock Pierce, co-founder of Tether and Blockchain Capital. Davenport worked at Blockchain Capital for over 3 years until 2022. He also worked at Facebook from 2011-2014. Davenport investmented in ZipZap, an online money transfer provider. ZipZap was also funded by Brock Pierce and Scott Banister of the PayPal Mafia, a close and longtime friend of Peter Thiel. ZipZap’s former CEO, Alan Safahi was also a board member for Ripple for many years. He was charged and convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in 2023. These people invested in ZipZap all have investments and/ or worked with Ripple, including Pierce, Thiel and Safahi. Blockchain Capital also was an early investor in Kraken, an early crypto exchange that was founded by Jesse Powell, a seed fund investor in Ripple going back to 2012. Mentioend earlier, Mintable, the NFT platform backed by Ripple’s Creator Fund, was funded by RIT as well. RIT (Rothschild’s venture capital fund) is also an investor in Kraken.

BitGo has many investors, including Peter Thiel and Scott Banister of Founders Fund. Another PayPal mafia member, David Sacks, who is now Donald Trump’s crypto and AI czar in the White House, is also an investor of BitGo through his Craft Venture VC. Elon Musk, former PayPal CEO and mafia member, has been given funding for several of his companies, including Tesla, Neuralink and SpaceX, from Antonio Gracias through his Valor Equity Partners. Valor is another funder of BitGo as well. Finally, Ron Burkle, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, through their co-founded A-Grade Investments, are also investors of Ben Davenport’s BitGo.

A-Grade Investments also has an early investment in the heavily celebrity funded company, Casper. Some celebrities who are funded in Casperinclude: Kevin Spacey, Nas, Scooter Braun, Ashton Kutcher, 50 Cent (Curits Jackson) and Adam Levine. Nas (Nasir Jones) is also invested in, through his QueensBridge Venture Partners VC, Altered State Machine, a company that was quickly aquired by Futureverse, a metaverse startup funded by Ripple. Nas is also invested in Prism Skylabs, a company backed by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

Scooter Braun met with Ripple and Brad Garlinghouse in 2024. He also has a close relationship with the Kushners and Eric Adams, former Mayor of New York. Eric Adam’s former Chief Counsil was Lisa Zornberg, a Ripple attorney for the infamous SEC lawsuit. Brock Pierce, a Ripple investor, is also an advisor of Eric Adams on “all things crypto”. Much like how Pierce was Epstein’s advisor on crypto and AI. One of Eric Adam’s attorneys was Alex Spiro, who also defended Elon Musk and JAY-Z. Alex Spiro also worked with Jared Kushner’s friend, Adam Neumann, an Israeli-American billionaire businessman and investor. Alex Spiro’s good friend Marc Shimmel was boyfriend of Madonna and well-known Kabbalah devotee. In 2018, Ripple partnered with Madonna to raise funds for her Raising Malawi foundation, matching all public donation. Madonna’s agent and longtime friend is Guy Oseary through his Maverick Management company. Guy Oseary, the Israeli investor and businessman who works closely with Ashton Kutcher and co-founded Sound Ventures and A-Grade Investments with Ron Burkle. In May 2018, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary surprised Ellen DeGeneres on her show with a $4 million donation in Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency to The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, facilitated through their Sound Ventures fund, which had invested in Ripple, to support gorilla conservation in Rwanda. Kutcher demonstrated XRP’s instant transfer capability by sending the funds live via a phone app live on-air.

Thread: Big Tech’s ‘Dot-Com’ Evolution into today’s Technocracy

Over the past four decades, a deeply interconnected network of Silicon Valley pioneers, tech companies, venture capitalists, and government entities has propelled the futurist technocracy movement, harnessing cryptocurrency, AI, and modern technologies to transform the global landscape. Sun Microsystems, founded in 1982 with ties to DARPA and In-Q-Tel, set the stage for Silicon Valley’s rise, later merging into Oracle, whose founder Larry Ellison maintained CIA connections, exemplifying the fusion of tech and government interests. Netscape, a browser trailblazer backed by Kleiner Perkins, evolved into Mozilla via AOL, fostering cypherpunk ideals of privacy and decentralization that influenced cryptocurrency’s ethos. Google, built with Sun alumni like Eric Schmidt and investments in Ripple, alongside Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset—linked to NASA’s Barney Pell and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund—advanced AI and search technologies while intertwining with crypto ventures. DigiCash, founded by David Chaum, pioneered digital currency concepts that inspired Bitcoin, with later projects like the xx network funded by Ripple’s Chris Larsen, bridging cryptography’s past and present. Singularity University, co-founded by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis with Google and XPRIZE support, champions exponential technologies, reflecting a transhumanist vision shared by Thiel and others. This web of relationships—spanning Ripple, Stellar, venture capital from Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, and government contracts—has not only shaped the tech ecosystem but also driven a technocratic agenda where AI, cryptocurrency, and innovation converge to redefine humanity’s future.

Sun Microsystems
Oracle
Netscape
AOL
Mozilla
Google
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Microsoft
Infospace
DigiCash
Singularity
XPRIZE

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Stellar
Bitcoin

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Sun Microsystems, Part I

Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 by Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy, focusing on workstations and servers powered by the UNIX operating system. The company grew rapidly, becoming a key player in enterprise computing with its SPARC processors and Solaris OS. Sun had connections with U.S. government agencies, including DARPA, which funded early research, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm, which invested in Sun-related technologies for intelligence applications.

Andreas Bechtolsheim was charged with insider trading by the SEC for the 2019 Cisco acquisition of Acacia Communications. Andreas has funding in Diamond Foundry. Mark Pincus of Zynga is another invesotr in Diamond Foundry. Zynga has funding from Google, specifically John Doerr who was also a director at Sun Microsystems. Doerr, aside from working with Google, Sun Microsystems, Amazon, and Zynga, was also an advisory council member for the Jeffrey Epstein funded MIT Hamilton Project, aka “OpenCBDC”. Diamond Foundry also had investments from Wendi Murdoch, a close friend of the Kushner brothers and ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch. Vast Ventures is another important funder of Diamond Foundry, which is a VC founded by Ripple co-founders Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen. Scott Banister of PayPal mafia and long time affiliate of Peter Thiel is another funder of Diamond Foundry.

Andreas made an early $1.1M seed and pre-seed investment of Google, making a small fortune from their success. He was a very early investor and worked with Eric Schmidt at Sun Microsystems. Eric Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, he went on to be long time board member, director and even CEO of Google, as well as Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Schmidt also was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001 after leaving Sun Microsystems. Novell employed cypherpunk Chris Toshok of Netscape. Eric Schmidt also worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Barney Pell of Powerset and Microsoft (Bing!) worked while at Stanford. Many of the largest and most recognized big tech companies came out of PARC and Stanford throughout the late 20th century through the dot com era. PARC has ties to the US government, specifically DAPRA, for funding and research.

Google (Google Ventures), along with Peter Thiel, were early investors in Ripple, formely named OpenCoin at the time of their seed funding rounds. David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO, worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) during his tenure at WebMaster Incorporated, a Santa Clara-based software developer. He developed encrypted cloud storage and enterprise messaging systems for high-profile organizations, including the NSA, leveraging his expertise in cryptography and secure computing. Additionally, in 1988, Schwartz filed a patent for a distributed computer system, closely resembling early blockchain concepts.

Three other executive level employees of Sun Microsystems, Bill Coleman,Edward Zander, and Michael Marquardt, all work (or worked) for Seagate Technology, a company that has funded several rounds for Ripple totaling almost $100 million going back to 2015.


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Sun Microsystems, Part II

Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982, transitioned into one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capitalists by founding Khosla Ventures in 2004. His firm has invested in over 1,000 startups, with notable successes including: Worldcoin, Oscar Health, Stripe, OpenDoor, Lattice, Cadre, Chain and Affirm. He has shaped silicon valley startup success through his billions in funding and affiliations with government-funded initiatives through DARPA and In-Q-Tel connections from his Sun Microsystems days. Vinod has close ties to the PayPal mafia, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Keith Rabois, who joined Vinod’s Khosla Ventures in 2013. Rabois left in 2019 to join Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s VC, but rejoined Khosla Ventures in 2024 as a managing director. Several of Vinod’s largest investments (and most successful) were in companies founded by PayPal mafia members.

Vinod Khosla, through his firm Khosla Ventures, has been a significant investor in Deep Genomics, a Toronto-based company leveraging AI for drug discovery and development, particularly in genomics. In 2017, Khosla Ventures led a $16 million funding round for Deep Genomics and served as an advisor. Elon Musk’s longtime friend and major investor, Steve Jurvetson, is also an advisor for Deep Genomics. Jurvetson has invested in Elon Musk’s: Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX and is a member of the Edge Foundation.

Vinod is a member of John Brockman’s Edge Foundation. The Edge Foundation, founded in 1988, is a nonprofit organization that fosters intellectual dialogue among leading scientists, technologists, and thinkers. It hosts annual questions, events, and "billionaires’ dinners" to explore cutting-edge ideas, but faced controversy for receiving $638,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s foundations between 2001 and 2015, raising questions about its ties to elite networks. Some noteable people who are members include: Ray Kurzweil, Steve Jurvetson, George Church, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Weinstein (Thiel Capital), Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Joichu Ito (MIT Media Lab) and Vinod Khosla.

Vinod’s wife, Neera Khosla, works with Joichi Ito’s sister, Mimi Ito, at Wikimedia Foundation, backed by George Soro’s Open Society. George Soro’s investment company, Soros Fund Management, was a lead investor in Ripple CTO Davdi Schwartz’s co-founded Polysign. Vinod also backed Cadre, Jared Kushner’s real estate startup, and served on the board. George Soros and Peter Thiel led funding on Cadre. Joichu Ito was director of MIT Media Labs where Epstein donated millions to fund crypto and AI related projects and Joichu Ito was a good friend of Epstein. Ito also ran Digital Garage where he and Epstein used to funded crypto and biotech startups. Furthermore, Mimi’s husband, and Joichu Ito’s brother in-law, Scott Fisher, worked with Barney Pell at NASA for a short while, and was Nicholas Negroponte’s advisee at MIT. Nicholas Negroponte is founder of MIT Media Labs with his own ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Barney Pell will be mentioned later in this thread in more detail.

Jack Dorsey co-founded Square, a company Vinod Khosla funded and was a board member of since 2015. After Dorsey left twitter, he renamed Square to ‘Block’. He wanted to focus more on crypto within the company. He is a huge proponet and long time supporter of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

Olivier Janssens worked at Sun Microsystems in 1999-2001. He also was a Bitcoin investor since at least 2010 and worked with the Bitcoin Foundation as a board member with several cypherpunks that will be mentioned throughout this thread with ties to early Bitcoin companies and US governement organizations. Olivier Janssens is married into the family of the last King of Italy, King Umberto II.

Peter Todd is another Cypherpunk and Bitcoin advocate who worked at Bitcoin Foundation and has ties to the very early days of Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto (likely NSA). He is good friends with Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox, founder of ZCash and Bolt. Bolt was funded by Ripple’s grant/ investment branch ‘Xpring’. ZCash was funded by Pantera, a VC where Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple and Stellar, was a partner.

Steve Waterhouse, Director and team leader of Sun Microsystems, was also: Partner at Pantera with Jed McCaleb, CEO and founder of Orchid Labs with Paul Veradittakit, former Fortress Investment Group managing director, board member of Bitstamp and Change Coin. While at Pantera with Jed McCaleb, Steve invested in Chain, a company that would merge with Stellar’s Lightyear to form ‘Inter/stellar’. Several years later, Chain reverted back into Chain. Stellar allegedly retained all intellectual property from the partnership.

Steve Waterhouse, as managing director at Fortress Investment Group, was part of the Theranos founding, along with Oracle founder Larry Ellison (parent company of Sun Microsystems) mentioned earlier. Fortress Investment Group also bought Epstein’s and his partner Daniel Zwirn’s assets in 2009 after illegal activity with moving money between international funds was brought to the attention of the SEC by Zwirn himself.

Kushner Connections

Kushner brothers, VC's/ big tech, Israel, UAE, Saudi Arabia and more

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Kushner, Israel and Saudi Arabia/ UAE Connections

Jared Kushner and Joshua Kushner are brothers from a prominent real estate family, sons of Charles Kushner. Charles Kushner is an American real estate developer and the founder of Kushner Companies, a private real estate firm based in New York City. He was convicted in 2005 on charges of tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions, serving a two-year prison sentence. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020. The Kushner family (and now the Trump family) has been a close friend of Israel Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu. Charles Kushner is his longtime friend who let Netanyahu stay at his New Jersey home on several occasions, Jared even offered Netanyahu his own bedroom for a weekend.

Jared Kushner served as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. Kushner was a key architect of the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and several Arab states (UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco) in 2020. He spearheaded the "Peace to Prosperity" plan, a 2020 proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace, emphasizing economic development but criticized for favoring Israel and bypassing Palestinian input. He also facilitated U.S.-brokered deals to strengthen regional alliances against Iran. Kushner’s role drew scrutiny for his lack of diplomatic experience, security clearance issues, and potential conflicts of interest tied to his business dealings, notably with Saudi Arabia’s investments post-tenure.

Andrew Farkas is an American real estate developer and the founder of Island Capital Group, known for managing billions in real estate investments. He had many business dealings involving Kushner Companies, the real estate firm led by Jared Kushner and his father, Charles Kushner. In 2011, Farkas’s company provided financial backing for Kushner Companies’ $102 million purchase of two apartment buildings in Hackensack, New Jersey. He also previously collaborated with Donald Trump on a planned but ultimately stalled real estate project in Dubai. Farkas attended Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball alongside Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, a business partner and CEO of Dubai-based DP World. Bin Sulayem was named as owner in the paperwork of Farkas’ Great St. Jim, LLC which is the LLC Jeffrey Epstein (a Mossad asset) used to purchase his Little and Great St. James Islands. Farkas and Epstein each own 50% shares of American Yacht Harbor located in the Virgin islands on the east side of St. Thomas. Andrew’s Father, Jonathan Farkas, was good friends with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Both Andrew and Jonathan Farkas were close friends of Jeffrey Epstein from at least 2007 until his death in 2019. Farkas used his Island Capital Group LLC, through IGY Marinas, to purchase his 50% stake and split with Epstein for American Yacht HArbor. Farkas also owned Yacht Haven in the Virgin Islands. Jared Kushner, along with his wife Ivanka Trump and Melania Trump are in Epstein’s Black book and are placed on his St. James Island at least once.

Jared Kushner has been a good friend of Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Jared Kushner played a leading role inside the Trump administration defending Crown Prince Mohammed after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that he had approved the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post and resident of Virginia who had criticized the kingdom’s rulers. Donald Trump once purchased a yacht (Trump renamed the ‘Trump Princess’) from Jamal Khashoggi’s Uncle, Adnan Khashoggi, a known Saudi arms dealer and fixer. It was found that Pegasus spyware was used by Saudi Arabia in the assassination. A spyware created by NSO Group with origins tied to Israel’s Mossad and connections to Saudi Arabia, Michael Flynn, Erik Prince, Joel Zamel, George Nader, Russian Oligarchs, Cambridge Analytica, Black Cube, Blackwater. Jared created a close relationship while in the White House with bin Salman, and even landed a $2,000,000,000 deal with Salman and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund to fund his new investing firm, Affinity Partners. Jared met with bin Salman’s closest intermediary, George Nader, on several occasions. George Nader is a multi-convicted “lifelong pedophile”. Nader was also an “informal foreign policy advisor” for Donald Trump from 2016. George Nader, Erik Prince (Co-workers at Blackwater) and Joel Zamel (founder of Psy-Group, a psy-op specialization company) all met with Trump to create a social media manipulation campaign. Kushner and Don Jr. were also present at this meeting. Psy-Group is likely responsible for the “Qanon” psyop.

Jared Kushner, George Nader and Erik Prince also have another friend in common aside from bin Salman, Kirill Dmitriev. Kirill Dmitriev is CEO, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government; board member, Mobile TeleSystems. Close relations with the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin. Kirill may have been involved with or partially funded the Pegasus Spyware of NSO Group in Israel, which did have ties to several known and unknown Russian oligarchs working with Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed bin Salman’s cousin, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Ad Saud, has had relations with the Trump family since the early 90’s, with ownership in the Plaza Hotel once owned by Donald Trump. When Trump and Alwaleed owned the Plaza, Epstein and Maxwell had a memorial for Ghislaines father, Robert Maxwell, a once affiliate of Donald Trump and former Mossad and Russian agent. Prince Alwaleed has been a close friend and business partner of George Soros, who a major financial backer of Jared Kushner’s Cadre, which also has funding from previously mentioned Epstein friend and business partner Andrew Farkas, who has deep ties to elite Saudi Arabian family and princes. George Soros also helped Kushner out of a debt he owed for his 666 Fifth Ave, NY property (now 660 Fifth Ave).

Brookfield Asset Managemet bailed out Kushner Companies when they purchased a $1.1 billion 99-year lease on 666 Fifth Ave, preventing Kushner Companies from filing bankruptcy. Brookfield Asset Management was a key benefactor in the IP3 International nuclear power scandal involved in the first Trump administration. The IP3 scandal also involved Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn, Thomas Barak, Erik Prince and several others. The plan aimed to build nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia, with U.S. involvement to counter Russian and Chinese influence. Concerns arose due to potential conflicts of interest and lax oversight. Brookfield’s connection stems from its 2018 acquisition of Westinghouse Electric, a nuclear power company, for $4.6 billion. Westinghouse stood to benefit from the IP3 plan, as it could secure contracts for nuclear reactor construction. The deal, partly funded by QIA (a 9% stakeholder in Brookfield Property Partners), raised suspicions of foreign influence, especially since Kushner was involved in Middle East diplomacy, including U.S. policy toward Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Critics, including Senator Ron Wyden, probed whether Kushner’s financial ties to Brookfield and QIA influenced U.S. policy, particularly regarding the Qatar blockade and Saudi nuclear deals. Brookfield’s Westinghouse acquisition was under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) during this period, adding to concerns about Kushner’s potential conflicts of interest.


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Kushner and Cadre

Cadre (RealCadre LLC) is a real estate technology platform founded in 2014 by Jared Kushner, JoshuaKushner, and Ryan Williams. It connects high-net-worth investors with real estate investment opportunities,focusing on commercial properties. The company uses data-driven tools to streamline investments and hasfacilitated billions in transactions. Co-founder and former board member, Jared held a significant stake in Cadre (valued at $25–50 million in 2020) through his company BFPS Ventures LLC. He stepped back from active management during his Trump administration role (2017–2021) to avoid conflicts of interest, assigning voting rights to others, and sold his stake in 2020, leveraging a federal tax deferral program. Co-founder and active leader through his venture capital firm, Thrive Capital, which incubated Cadre. Joshua remains a key figure in Cadre’s operations, guiding its strategic direction alongside CEO Ryan Williams.

Cadre has the backing of Peter Thiel through his Founders Fund VC, George Soros who provided Cadre with a $250 million line of credit in 2015 through his Soros Fund Management, Goldman Sachs, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and SoftBank.

Peter Thiel worked with Jared Kushner during their time with the Trump administration, starting in later 2016 at the first “tech” meeting at Trump Tower, where both Peter Thiel and Trae Stephens of Founders Fund and Palantir were given important roles, such as adivor to the President and advisor on Department of Defense, respectively. Thiel also financially backed the Kushner VC Thrive Capital Mangement.

Both Peter Thiel and George Soros are members of CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank that intends to promote individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its purpose is to conduct research and advocate for policies rooted in libertarian principles, influencing public policy debates through publications, events, and outreach.

SoftBank, one of the financial backers of Kushner’s Cadre company, is closely tied to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SoftBank has investments in several Elon Musk companies. SoftBank also owns Fortress Investment Group LLC, which is was owner in VICE Media, a company owned mostly by George Soros. Fortress Investment Group LLC worked with Epstein’s Estate management in regards to Epstein’s last will and trust, the 1953 Trust.

Fortress Investment Group LLC was a part owner of Theranos, a health technology company founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, claiming to revolutionize blood testing with a device that could perform comprehensive diagnostics from a single drop of blood. It shut down in 2018 after investigations revealed its technology was fraudulent, unable to deliver accurate results, leading to lawsuits, regulatory bans, and criminal charges against Holmes and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani for misleading investors and patients. Wendie Murdoch, a close friend of Joshua and Jared Kushner, as well as Ivanka Trump, was married to Rupert Murdoch for several years. Rupert Murdoch was another investor of Theranos. Wendi is invested in Cadre. She has several overlapping investments with Kushner-backed and founded companies, such as: Artsy, Oscar Health, ByteDance (TikTok parent company) and Diamond Foundry to name a few. Wendi was accused by media of being a chinese spy, getting close with many Trump family members and friends, and infiltrating politicans and media moguls, including her former husband Rupert Murdoch, a long time Trump friend and supporter.

Other Cadre investors, including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Founders Fund, also have many overlapping investments with the Kushner-founded VC, Thrive Capital Mangement. These overlapping investments include: OpenAI, Stripe, Artsy, Anduril Industries, Chain, Oscar Health, Diamond Foundry, OpenDoor, OpenGov, Robinhood, Affirm, and more.

Israeli Technocracy

Israel intelligence connections to Oracle, Palantir, NSO Group, Carbyne, Black Cube, Cambrdige Analytica, Psy-Group, Microsoft and OpenAI

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Larry Ellison and Oracle connections to Israeli Intelligence

Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation, has significant personal and professional connections to Israel, particularly its military and intelligence sectors. He has donated over $26 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including a $16.6 million pledge in 2017 to build a training facility for IDF soldiers, expressing strong support for Israel's security. Some former IDF members have worked for and with Oracle.

Safra Catz, born in Holon, Israel, is the CEO of Oracle Corporation, a position she has held since 2014, becoming sole CEO in 2019 after Mark Hurd’s resignation. Catz has expressed deep commitment to Israel, stating, “Larry [Ellison] and I are deeply committed to Israel.” In 2021, Oracle opened a highly secure underground data center in Jerusalem, followed by plans for a second in 2024, designed to withstand security threats and support cloud and AI operations (Now in collaberation with Palantir).

Following Trump’s 2016 election, Catz joined his transition team’s executive committee and hired Ezra Cohen-Watnik, Donald Trump’s former Chair and Member of the Public Interset Declassification Board (PIDB), and the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs for the United States National Security Council (NSC). Ezra Cohen-Watnik is Jewish. After Michael Flynn was removed as Trump’s national-security advisor, all but one person was removed who was appointed by Flynn, Ezra Cohen-Watnik. At the behest of Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, Trump refused General McMaster to remove Cohen-Watnik like the many other Flynn-appointed men in his cabinet. Flynn, along with Stanley McChrystal, were the strongest proponets of pushing the US government to adopt Palantir technology, specifically for the US Army and intelligence.

Oracle and Palantir announced a partnership in April 2024 to deliver integrated cloud and AI solutions, combining Oracle’s distributed cloud infrastructure with Palantir’s AI and decision-making platforms like Gotham, Foundry, and AIP.

Oracle and Palantir were both used for COVID-19 AI Database technologies in 2020. Palantir was a leading partner for Trump’s “Operation Warp-speed”. Larry Ellison was also one of the first tech leaders Trump reached out to in regards to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Palantir connections to Israel intelligence

Palantir has deep ties to Israel’s military and intelligence apparatus. Since opening a Tel Aviv office in 2015, Palantir has worked closely with the Israeli Defense Ministry, particularly since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry to supply AI-driven targeting and surveillance technologies for Israel’s war efforts. CEO Alex Karp has publicly affirmed Palantir’s support for Israel, noting high demand for its tools, including those used for predictive policing and targeting. Reports suggest Palantir’s technologies, potentially including its AI platform (AIP), support Israel’s Unit 8200 in generating “kill lists” via systems like “Lavender,” raising concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza. Palantir’s ties to Unit 8200 are further strengthened by alumni like Hamutal Meridor, a former Verint executive with Unit 8200 connections, who leads Palantir Israel.

Palantir was funded in part by the CIA’s investment branch, In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel, originally named Peleus, was founded in 1999 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under the leadership of then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, a close friend of Alex Karp, the current CEO of Palantir. Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard was also an advisor for George Tenet and worked with the CIA for many years, and worked with Alex Brown & Sons, which has ties to 8200 Unit of Israel through Orckit Communications, the first publiclly traded company based in Israel on the NYSE. In-Q-Tel was established to invest in startups developing technologies critical to national security, such as cybersecurity, data analytics, and AI, with the CIA providing initial funding and oversight, like Palantir.

Michael Flynn and Stanley McChrystal were the most agressive advocates pushing the US government to adopt Palantir technology, specifically for the US Army and intelligence. Michael Flynn was also an advisor for Israel intelligence-tied NSO Group, the creators of Pegasus spyware and Israeli cyber-intelligence firm. On July 2, 2010, McChrystal’s deputy of intelligence, Michael Flynn, put in an urgent request to purchase Palantir for McChrystal’s troops after two Palantir representatives visited him, although by June 23, McChrystal had resigned from the military. Five days after his resignation, Tiger Global Fund invested into Facebook. Peter Thiel was the lead investor of Facebook and co-founder of Palantir.

In 2013 Facebook and Palantir joined forces at Cambridge Analytica following Eric Schmidt's daughter's suggestion (Sophie Schmidt). Eric Schmidt is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s AI Advisory Board. At the suggestion of a Palantir employee, Alfredas Chmieliauskas, suspected Russian spies Aleksander Kogan and Joseph Chancellor hacked Facebook and sold the data to Cambridge Analytica with Steve Bannon’s approval (then Vice Present of Cambridge Analytica). Palantir employees later worked on that data. All the while, Facebook and Google were also tied to the Cambridge Analytica’s operation. At some point in 2015-2016, Michael Flynn became an advisor to Cambridge Analytica.

Intelligence Agencies & Technocracies (Thread and Map breakdown)

US, Israel, China, Russia and UAE

Connections around intelligence assets and agencies, big tech companies, politics and more.

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CIA/ In-Q-Tel
Palantir
Blackwater
Frontier Research Group/ R2
Carbyne
DST
Tiger Global
Meta
Black Cube
Psy Group
Cambridge Analytica/ Emerdata Ltd.
NSO Group
8200 Unit/ IDF
Apollo Global Management
COVAXX
2016 Election & Cabinet
Sueprpower Nuclear Deals
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Donald Trump
Erik Prince
Peter Thiel
Jeffrey Epstein
Michael Flynn
Buzzy Krongard
George Tenet
George Nader
Joel Zamel
Stanley McChrystal
Michael Cohen
Steve Bannon
Vincent Tchenguiz
Thomas Barrack
Leon Black
Ehud Barak
Elliott Broidy
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The Blackwater & CIA Connection

The CIA had planned to expand the role of private contractors since the 1990’s. Enter Erik Prince. In 1990 at 21 years old he secured an internship in the White House under George H.W. Bush. After college at 23 years old, Prince was commissioned as an officer in the USA Navy via Officer Candidate School. He went on to become a Navy SEAL and was deployed with SEAL Team 8 to Haiti, the Middle East, and the Balkans. Erik Prince’s father’s engineering company, Prince Corporation, was sold to Johnson Controls in 1996 for $1.35 billion. That same year Erik Prince founded Blackwater. Prince purchased approximately 7,000 acres to create the largest private training facility in the country.

Blackwater has had about 12 different names over the course of the company’s history, including: ACADEMI, Xe, US Training Center, Paravant, Greystone, XPG LLC, EP Investments.

Buzzy Krongard ‘secretly’ worked for The CIA for decades before ‘officially’ working for them, going back to his early days at Alex Brown (Alex, Brown & Sons). There are more connections between Alex, Brown & Sons investments, and National Security. For instance, Sun Microsystems’ First software manager was Eric E. Schmidt, executive chairman at Google from 2011-2017, and Pentagon advisor since at least 2016.

In September 1997, following the takeover of Alex Brown Incorporated by Bankers Trust, Buzzy Krongard became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bankers Trust, Alex, Brown & Sons and remained in that position until he joined the CIA publicly in February 1998 as a “consigliere” to CIA’s director, George Tenet

While working at the CIA, Buzzy created a subdivision called Information Technologies that spawned In-Q-Tel, a CIA-backed venture capital firm seeking to invest in the rapidly advancing tech industry. Buzzy currently sits on its board of Trustees. In 2005, In-Q-Tel invested into Palantir, an AI company founded by Peter Thiel.

George Tenet is an In-Q-Tel Trustee and longtime Palantir advisor, going back to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Tenet requested the help of Palantir technology from friend Alex Karp in the mid 2000’s.

Buzzy Krongard, former long term CIA executive office (Once COO) and advisor to the director of the CIA, attained Blackwater’s first contract with the US military, giving rise to Erik Prince’s secret military company.

Buzzy would later go on to join the board of Blackwater in 2006, only to step down after being embroiled in a scandal the following year. Blackwater forces have been accused of using excessive force and killing civilians. Prince and many of his close advisors and employees are known as “Christian crusaders” looking to bring about destruction to the Muslim region. The Iraqi Government revoked Blackwater’s license to operate in Iraq on September 17, 2007, after a massacre in Baghdad in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed. In 2007, Congressional Hearings began on Blackwater’s actions. A string of frightening Blackwater revelation became public. In August 2010, the company agreed to pay a $42 million fine to settle allegations that it unlawfully provided armaments and military equipment overseas concluding a U.S. State Department investigation that began in 2007.

On December 22, 2020, President Trump pardoned four former Blackwater contractors serving long prison terms for the 2007 killing of 17 innocent civilians.

In 2007, Buzzy Krongard was forced to resign from the Blackwater advisory board he had just joined after his brother, Howard Joel Krongard, then the State Department inspector general recused himself from the Congressional Hearings on Blackwater Activities. Howard Krongard had been accused by members of Congress of going easy on Blackwater because of his brother’s connections with the company. Howard Krongard, as Inspector General at the State Department, had blocked investigations of massive fraud by military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. At Congressional hearings, Howard feigned ignorance that his brother was a director of Blackwater, one of the key contracts being examined.

Alex, Brown & Sons (Buzzy’s former firm with deep ties to Israel and The CIA) was the underwriter of the first Israeli company to go public in the US NASDAQ, Orckit Communications. Orckit was established in 1990 by Israeli Military Intelligence electronic Unit 8200 graduate, Eric Paneth.

One of the first In-Q-Tel investments and the most well known by far is Palantir, which was funded mostly from Peter Thiel and In-Q-Tel. The connections of Palantir with another one of Thiel’s Surveillance Data Integration companies, Israeli Carbyne, with Israel’s 8200 group, and with worldwide illegal operations of surveillance of dissident groups and minorities have been explored elsewhere. (More on Carbyne and Thiel in thread)

Apollo Global Management (AGM) bought Prince’s Blackwater through Constellis shortly after the fallout of the many outed scandals. Then in 2017 Tiger Fund invested into AGM while Erik Prince lobbied Donald Trump to provide the CIA with a private network of intelligence contractors.

Technocrats and Biotech (Part 2): Futurist Foundations, Institutes and Cryptography

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Satoshi Nakamoto and early Bitcoin connections to the NSA and cypherpunks

Adam Back, a British cryptographer and cypherpunk, invented Hashcash in 1997, a proof-of-work system to combat email spam, which inspired Bitcoin’s mining mechanism and was cited in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper. He was one of the first to receive emails from Nakamoto in August 2008, discussing Hashcash’s reference and Bitcoin’s draft

Adam Back’s Hashcash originally used SHA-1 cryptographic hash function. The NSA created SHA-256 as part of the SHA-2 family of cryptographic hash functions. Published in 2001 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), SHA-256 was designed by the NSA to provide secure, collision-resistant hashing for digital signatures and data integrity. Its development built on earlier algorithms like SHA-1, addressing vulnerabilities to ensure stronger cryptographic security. Back implemented SHA-256 shortly thereafter.

The US NSA and/or CIA is very likely behind the creation of Bitcoin, although it is unconfirmed whether Adam Back was directly invovled or used as a sort of proxy character with the early Satoshi Nakamoto emails.

Nick Szabo is an American computer scientist and cryptographer who developed "Bit Gold," a precursor to Bitcoin, in 1998. He’s been speculated to be Satoshi Nakamoto due to his work on decentralized currency and similarities in writing style, but he has consistently denied it. While Szabo corresponded with cypherpunks like Hal Finney and Wei Dai, no direct emails between him and Satoshi Nakamoto have been confirmed, though Satoshi cited Szabo’s Bit Gold in the Bitcoin whitepaper after learning of it via Adam Back in August 2008.

Hal Finney was a pioneering cryptographer and early Bitcoin contributor who received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto on January 12, 2009. He exchanged emails with Satoshi in November 2008 and January 2009, focusing on Bitcoin software bugs and network issues, which were later published by the Wall Street Journal in 2014. Finney, who denied being Satoshi, was a key figure in Bitcoin’s early development but faced speculation due to his proximity to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto and his cryptographic expertise.

Both Hal Finney and Nick Szabo were members of Extropy Foundation, a transumanist non-profit that will be discussed further in this thread.

Satoshi Nakamoto mentions a Bitcoin address starting with “NS,” sparking speculation about Szabo (whose initials are NS) or a Japanese name order for Nakamoto (NS). No direct Szabo-Satoshi emails exist, but both were part of the cypherpunk community, and Satoshi’s reference to Szabo’s work suggests familiarity, possibly through intermediaries like Back or Dai.

NS also coincidentally initializes “National Security” (Agency). Satoshi Nakamoto translation: Satoshi = Intelligent origin; Nakamoto = Central origin. Combined Satoshi Nakamoto literally translates to Central intelligence (Agency?) [CIA].

Adam Back co-founded a crypto company called Blockstream in 2014. Blockstream has funding from Brock Pierce, an early Bitcoin futurist who co-founded Tether, as well as Blockchain Capital and many other crypto related companies.

Brock Pierce also attended “Mindshift” and was Jeffrey Epstein’s intial advisor on all things crypto. The Mindshift Conference, hosted by Jeffrey Epstein and organized by Al Seckel, took place in early January 2011 on Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, and in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. It covered topics including artificial intelligence, complexity theory, new trends in theoretical physics, evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, minimally invasive surgery, encryption and decryption, new financial systems, and emerging technologies like crypto currency and quantum computing.

Jeffrey Epstein used his good friend Joichu Ito’s Digital Garage firm to help fund crypto, AI and biotech startups including Adam Back’s Blockstream. Joichu Ito was the director of MIT Media Labs, responsible for incubating many crypto related projects with connections to futurist proonents like Reid Hoffman. The NSA and CIA have a history of recruiting assets from MIT and Stanford, where most of these people are alumni. Hoffman was a funder of Adam Back’s Blockstream and board member, as well as being a board member at: MIT Media Labs, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Mozilla. He was VP at PayPal and a PayPal mafia member, and founded LinkedIn.

Coincidentally or not, Satoshi Nakamoto was “born” one day after the founding date of Microsoft. Microsoft has longstanding ties to the US governemnt, including the NSA and DARPA. 2/ 5

Extropy Institute, Lifeboat Foundation and Edge Foundation

The Extropy Institute, co-founded by Max More and Tom Bell in 1991, was a non-profit organization promoting extropianism, a transhumanist philosophy advocating for indefinite life extension through science and technology, uniting thinkers in AI, nanotechnology, and cryonics, before closing in 2006, declaring its mission "essentially completed.

Important members of Extropy included: Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Max More, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Jaron Lanier, Nick Bostrom, Marvin Minsky, Ray Kurzweil, Steve Jurvetson, Ralph Merkle, Todd Huffman, Greg Burch and Julian Assange.

Many of the transhuman proponents making major waves in today’s AI age were members of Extropy, as well as being members of Lifeboat Foundation and Edge Foundation.

The Lifeboat Foundation, founded in 2002 by Eric Klien, is a nonprofit based in Gardnerville, Nevada, focused on mitigating global catastrophic risks from technologies like AI, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering.

Notable members of Lifeboat Foundation include: Jeffrey Epstein, Tammy Camp (Stronghold co-founder), Stuart Hoegner (Tether/ Bitfinex lawyer), J.R. Willet (Tether co-founder), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), Charles Hoskinson (Cardano), Bobby and Charlie Lee (Litecoin/ Bitcoin Foundation/ BTCC), and Stanislav Shalunov (BitTorrent)

The Edge Foundation, founded by John Brockman in 1998, is an intellectual salon hosting discussions among scientists, technologists, and thinkers to explore cutting-edge ideas, primarily through its website, Edge.org, and annual events like the Billionaires’ Dinner. It received significant funding from Jeffrey Epstein, who donated $638,000 of $857,000 total from 2001 to 2017, often as the sole donor in some years, with Epstein’s financial ties to Brockman dating back to 1995. Notable members include evolutionary psychologist John Tooby, physicist Freeman Dyson, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, and tech entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, with Peter Thiel also linked through board membership and event attendance.

Other members of Edge besides Epstein, Musk, Thiel and Bezos includes: Nick Bostrom, Marvin Minsky, Ray Kurzweil, Steve Jurvetson (who helps fund all of Elon Musk’s companies), Vinod Khosla, George Church (Epstein funded futurist scientist), Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Paul Allen and Bill Gates of Microsoft, Jeffrey Epstein’s good friend Joichu Ito, and Yuval Noah Harari.

Many of the people listed above in these three foundations are members in at least two or all of these foundations, considering they all have similar themes (transhumanism and futurism). Coincidentally, all three foundations have funding and membership from Jeffrey Epstein.

Several of the people listed who are members of either one or more of these futurist foundations are also cypherpunks. Cypherpunks are a group of activists and cryptographers, formed in the early 1990s through an email list, advocating for privacy and individual freedom through strong cryptography and decentralized technologies. their ideas influenced Bitcoin and projects like WikiLeaks. They focused on tools like PGP encryption and anonymous remailers to counter government surveillance.

Some of those cypherpunks include: Julian Assange, Adam Back, Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, and Todd Huffman. (There are many more but these have overlapping memberships of these foundations, as well as other companies and foundations to be mentioned later in this thread).

China ties to Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Tron, BitTorrent +

Connections surrounding Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Tron, BitTorrent and how they tie in with China.

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Vitalik Buterin:

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, was awarded a Thiel Fellowship in 2014, a program initiated by Peter Thiel to support young entrepreneurs who skip or drop out of college to pursue innovative projects. Buterin received a $100,000 grant to focus on developing Ethereum. This fellowship provided financial and networking support leading to his 2013 White Paper of Ethereum. Prior to this, in 2012, Buterin sought employment with Ripple, a cryptocurrency company focused on payment solutions, and was offered a position by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb. He allegedly slept on David Schwartz’s couch, the CTO of Ripple, at the time he was trying to gain employment at Ripple. However, the opportunity fell through due to visa issues preventing Buterin from working in the United States.

Vitalik co-founded a company with Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund partner Joey Krug called Augur.

Vitalik is a member of the transhuman/ futurist group, Lifeboat Foundation. Other members include Jeffrey Epstein, Charles Hoskinson of Cardano, Tammy Camp of Stronghold, JR Willet of Tether, Stuart Hoegner, lawyer for Bitfinex, and Stanislav Shalunov of BitTorrent (among many others).

Vitalik is an advisor and co-founder of Fenbushi Capital. Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia, founded in Shanghai in 2015 by Bo Shen, Vitalik Buterin, Xiao Feng.

Some of Fenbushi’s investments include: Circle, ConsenSys, Securitize, O(1) Labs. ConsenSys is a blockchain technology company that specializes in building decentralized applications (DApps) and infrastructure for the Ethereum blockchain. It was founded by Joseph Lubin in 2014. Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Securitize has lead funding by Ripple. O(1) Labs has funding from many leading Chinese venture companies. One of O(1) Labs’ advisors is Jill Carlson who was strategy lead at Inter/Stellar (Stellar subsidiary) from 2016-2017.

One of Vitalik’s leading investments is in Starkware Industries, an Israeli software company that specializes in cryptography. It develops zero-knowledge proof technology that compresses information to address the scalability problem of the blockchain, and works on the Ethereum platform. Other investors include: Founders Fund, Sam Bankman-Fried, Joey Krug (co-founder of Vitalik’s Augur company), Tiger Global, Three Arrows Capital and many others. 2/ 5

China Connections, part 1:

Xiao Feng, Prometheum, Wanxiang, McCaleb +

Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum is an advisor and co-founder of Fenbushi Capital. Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia, founded in Shanghai in 2015 by Bo Shen, Vitalik Buterin, Xiao Feng.

Fenbushi has ties to the Chinese government and likely the CCP more specifically.

Xiao Feng (Feng Xiao) Feng Xiao is Founder of PlatON, Wanxiang Blockchain, Fenbushi Capital and Board Member of Prometheum.
Prometheum, a crypto company offering custody and trading services for digital assets, has sparked controversy due to its close relationship with the SEC. The company became the first to receive a special broker-dealer license for digital assets from the SEC, a decision that has drawn criticism from the crypto industry. Critics have labeled Prometheum an "SEC pet project," pointing to its approvals as evidence of potential favoritism, especially amid the SEC's broader crackdown on other crypto exchanges. The controversy intensified when Prometheum announced it would custody Ethereum (ETH) and classify it as a security—contradicting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) view that ETH is a commodity. This move has fueled concerns about regulatory overreach and the potential impact on Ethereum’s classification and the wider crypto market. Additionally, lawmakers have raised questions about the SEC’s ties to Prometheum, suggesting possible special treatment.

Prometheum’s ties to Ethereum and the SEC further sparked the infamous “ETH Free Pass” theory, meaning the SEC was likely paid off or made backroom deals with the Prometheum/ Ethereum people to circumvent regulations, while cracking down on the competition, such as Ripple and others. Xiao Feng and Vitalik are the most relevant figures in connection to both companies.

Xiao Feng founded Wanxiang Blockchain, a seed funder of Prometheum. Vitalik is a “Chief Scientist” at Wanxiang. Wanxiang held several summits to host blockchain experts for panels to discuss the advancements of blockchain technology. One event included Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum and Chief Scientist of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, Gavin Wood, Founder of Polkadot, Jed Mccaleb, Co-founder of Ripple and Stellar, Nick Szabo, Inventor of Smart Contract, Jae kwon, Founder of Cosmos and other blockchain influencers.

A friend of Xiao Wang and Jed McCaleb is Lilin Sun. Sun was involved with McCaleb’s file sharing service ‘e-Donkey’. He was also present with McCaleb at Feng’s Wanxiang Blockchain summit mentioned earlier. Sun founded a company called Juzix and is CEO of another company called Juzhen Financials. Juzhen is funded by both Fenbushi Capital and Wanxiang Blockchain. A woman named Ada Xiao works (worked) at all the following at one point: Wanxiang Blockchain, Juzhen Financials, Juzix, and PlatON.

PlatON, a Xiao Feng company, works closely with HashKey, another CCP-tied venture capital company. HashKey has investments in the following:

Lightnet, a Southeast-Asia company JedMcCaleb is closely tied to with a long-standing partnership with Stellar and Velo Labs where he is an advisor.
Prometheum, again founded and funded by Xiao Feng and Vitalik Buterin.
Mask Network, a company with deep ties to Ripple.

Deng Chao has been a longtime employee of HashKey, as well as being employed by Wanxiang Blockchain’s parent company Wanxiang Holding Co., Ltd at the time of the famous Blockchain summit with McCaleb, Vitalik, Xiao Feng and the others mentioned earlier which was at the very early years of their respective blockchain’s, Ripple/ Stellar, Ethereum, and Prometheus.

Rothschild, Soros & Rockefeller
Crypto and AI
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James Rothschild
RIT Capital Partners (Rothschild Investment Trust)

George Soros
Soros Fund Management

David Rockefeller
Venrock

Connections to Ripple, Polysign, Relationship Science, Palantir + Rothschild, Soros, & Rockefeller
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James Rothschild
RIT Capital Partners (Rothschild Investment Trust)

Investments include:
Kraken
Animoca Brands
Paxos
Relationship Science
Aspen Digital

Aspen Digital funding from:
RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust)
Chatchaval Jiaravanon
Liberty City Ventures
SNZ Holdings

Both RIT and Liberty City Ventures fund:
Animoca Brands
Aspen Digital
Paxos
Bitgo

Animoca Brands funds Ripple’s Mintable NFT platform, along with Ashton Kutcher through his Sound Ventures, Ashton Kutcher is a Ripple promoter)

Kraken’s founder and former CEO Jesse Powell funded Ripple in 2012 when it was founded.

Chatchaval Jiaravanon is Lightens/ Velo co-founder (Velo acquired Interstellar from Stellar and Chain, Jed McCaleb is advisor for Lightnet and Velo, founder of Ripple and Stellar)

SNZ Holdings funds Mask Network which is also funded by:
Animoca Brands
Hard Yaka (Ripple CRO Greg Kidd founded) > Which also funds Ripple ties Uphold, Global ID, Puma Browser (All tied directly to Ripple money and people)
Dapper Labs (Funded by George Soros, Soros Fund Management)

Paxos is funded by:
RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust)
Liberty City Ventures
PayPal Ventures
Mithril Capital (Thiel VC)
RRE Ventures

Bitgo has funding and relationships with several people, including Ashton Kutcher, who are invested or worked with Ripple and or funded Ripple.

PROMIS

The PROMIS-Inslaw Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran Hostage Crisis “October Surprise”
The BCCI Banking Scandal
US-Israeli Intelligence

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How a ground-breaking technology tied to Israeli and US intelligence that nobody has ever heard of found its way in the middle of every major scandal of the 1980’s, including its’ own.

Interactive Map Link (Kumu):
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The PROMIS Story, Part I: The Origins of PROMIS

PROMIS was a case management software developed by William (Bill) and Nancy Hamilton at the non-profit they founded called Inslaw. Bill, having been in US intelligence in the Vietnam war and worked for the NSA and CIA, was well versed in computers, espionage, and programming. He began working on a personal project that would monitor and organize large datasets; This was the beginning of PROMIS.

Inslaw’s development of PROMIS was originally funded by the government under a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) grant in the 1970s. That means the software is public domain and free.

In the final days of the Carter administration, the LEAA was phased out. Inslaw had made a name for itself and Hamilton wanted to stay in business, so he converted Inslaw to a for-profit, private business. The new Inslaw did not own the public domain version of PROMIS because it had been developed with LEAA funds. But because it had funded a major upgrade with its own money, Inslaw did claim ownership of the first enhanced version of PROMIS, the 32-bit VAX PROMIS. This version was far more attractive to the DOJ and the intelligence community.

The primary users of the early version of the software were the United States Attorneys Office of the District of Columbia, and state and local law enforcement. In 1979, the DOJ contracted with the Institute to do a pilot project that installed versions of PROMIS in four US Attorneys offices. Encouraged by the results, the Department decided in 1981 to go ahead with a full implementation of locally based PROMIS systems, and issued a request for proposals (RFP) to install the mini-computer version of 32-bit VAX PROMIS in the 20 largest United States Attorneys offices.

The now for-profit Inslaw responded to the RFP, and in March 1982 was awarded the three-year $10 million contract by the contracting division, the Executive Office of United States Attorneys (EOUSA)

A key dispute over proprietary rights had to be solved by a bi-lateral change to the original contract. EOUSA claimed that Inslaw had overcharged for their service and the DOJ decided to withhold payments before the end of the first year of the contract.

This caused Inslaw to fall into bankruptcy and file Chapter 11. Eventually, they were forced into Chapter 7 by a bankruptcy court ruling. After filing Chapter 7, Hamilton and Inslaw made allegations toward the DOJ of a conspiracy and cover up to illegally acquire the upgraded version of PROMIS through “trickery, fraud and deceit”.

Inslaw owners William and Nancy Hamilton spoke to Anthony Pasciuto, then the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of the United States Trustees (EOUST), a DOJ component responsible for overseeing the administration of bankruptcy cases. Pasciuto told the Hamiltons that the Director of the EOUST, Thomas Stanton, had pressured the U.S. Trustee assigned to the Inslaw case, Edward White, to convert Inslaw's bankruptcy from chapter 11 (reorganization of the company), to chapter 7 (liquidation).

Ron Burkle

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Ron Burkle and his direct (and indirect) ties to Ripple, pedophiles, billionaires, the Holy See and more:

Ripple
A-Grade Investments
Ashton Kutcher
Relativity Media
Bill Clinton
Kevin Spacey
Diddy
DiCaprio
Michael Jackson Ranch
Jeffrey Epstein
Opus Dei/ Catholic Church/ Holy See
AXA
Paul Singer
Barnes & Noble
Bill Ackman
Mary Jo White
Pharma/ Biotech
Relationship Science
Stanley Druckenmiller
George Soros
Polysign
Palantir
Harlem Children’s Zone
Ken Langone
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A-Grade Investments

Ron Burkle is the financial backing and parter of A-Grade Investments which is co-founded by his friend Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary have promoted Ripple by donating $4,000,000 worth of XRP to Ellen DeGenerous on her own show, to use for charity work.

A-Grade Investments (Kutcher, Oseary and Burkle) has investments in:

Vicarious, a mega-AI company backed by several of the world’s richest tech leaders including Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Garry Tan (Ripple seed investor), Vinod Khosla (Epstein ties), and others

Airbnb, a start up backed by Sam Altman, Kevin Hartz, Keith Rabios (PayPal Mafia/ Stellar board), Elad Gil, Reid Hoffman (PayPal Mafia, Epstein friend), Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Silver Lake (Brad Garlinghouse of Ripple on board), Tiger Global (Ripple funder) and others

BitGo, a crypto company backed by Elon associated Valor Equity Partners (Antonio Gracias), Mike Novogratz, Goldman Sachs, Barry Silbert/ DCG, David O. Sacks, Pantera Capital (McCaleb ties), Ben Davenport, Jeff Skoll (Epstein close friend), Peter Thiel’s Founder Fund, Brock Pierce (Epstein associate and crypto leader from early days)

Flexport, a freight and logistics company with close ties to Peter Thiel’s circle and Palantir. Trae Stephens of Palantir is a board member, Anja Manuel is an advisor who also sits on the board of Ripple. Flex port has funding from: Garry Tan (Ripple seed investor), Google Ventures (Ripple seed investor), OpenGov (Joe Lonsdale of Palantir company), Trae Stephens/ Founders Fund (Thiel), Scott Banister (PayPal mafia), 8VC (Joe Lonsdale’s VC), and several others

Mobilecoin (Sentz) & Signal (Open Whisper System)

A thread of the many connections between Mobilecoin, Signal, X, cypherpunks, crypto/ AI founders, intelligence affiliates, and others

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Mobilecoin
Stellar (SDF)
Signal
Stripe
Cypherpunks
X (Twitter)
Elon/ Snowden
Israel/ 8200 Unit
PayPal Mafia
WhatsApp
Intelligence
Long Now
DuckDuckGo
Google
Cash App
+
Mobilecoin & Signal
Thread
2/ 13

Mobilecoin was founded by Joshua Moldboard and Shane Glenn. Mobilecoin was rebranded to Sentz (I will still call it Mobilecoin throughout this thread for simplicity)

Mobilecoin has many connections to cypherpunks, crypto leaders, and transhumanists, including many of its’ funders and advocates.

Mobilecoin leadership, staff and members include (Notable names):

David A. Bray > Singularity University with Barney Pell, government positions
Bob Lee > Founded Cash App
Sarah Novotny > Microsft, Linux
Moxie Marlinspike > Signal founder, former X (Twitter) Security leader
Isis Lovecruft > Cypherpunk and crypto member
Renee DiResta > CIA, Stanford, Yonder, Mozilla, Thiel Fellow, PayPal mafia associate
Alex Gravely > Cypherpunk member, Github Dropbox
Brady Forrest > Microsot, Khosla Ventures (Stripe funder), Singularity, Foo Camp with Joichu Ito)

Mobilecoin investors (notable names):

Future Ventures > Steve Jurvetson (Close Elon Musk investor, DFJ)
Binance
General Catalyst > Stripe, Oscar Health, Anduril, Circle, Cadre (Close ties to Kushners and Thiel circles)
Coinbase
Alameda Research > Sam Bankman Fried/ FTX
Matt Mullenweg > Stellar advisor
10X Capital > Ripple, Palantir, Circle, 23&Me
Time Ventures > Marc Benioff (Elon/ Thiel circle)
+

MobileCoin secured $29.7 million in a funding round led by Binance Labs, in exchange for 37.5 million tokens

Mobilecoin is a member of Long Now Foundation. (More on Long Now Foundation later in this thread)

Lucy: 666 Fifth Avenue
1/ 8

A Thread about the strange connections surrounding:
Jared Kushner
666 (660) Fifth Ave, New York
Lucent Technologies (Nokia)
Lumon Industries (Severance)
Lumen (Stellar)
Stripe
Elon Musk
Neuralink
6G/ IoB/ Luciferase
+ Lucent Technology & 666 5th Ave, NYC
2/ 8

Lucent Technologies, Inc., or simply Lucent, was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. September 30th is also the date Palantir went public in 2020 and when Stellar created its’ Genesis Block.

Lucent leased office space on several floors of 666 5th Ave, New York. Lucent was developing software called Inferno as well as RF chip technologies until the company was eventually acquired by Nokia.

In Lucent's press release for 'Inferno', a promotional quote by Peter Bernstein, president of Infonautics Consulting, praised Lucent's software product with these words: "inferno is designed to take the chaos out of the electronic Tower of Babel".

Lucent's statement that "Inferno (internet/computer) applications are written in a new language called 'Limbo' which was designed specifically for the 'Inferno' software. Limbo, or purgatory, is when one is awaiting judgement of Heaven of Hell.

666 5th Ave, New York was developed by Tishman Realty & Construction Co. This is the same company that developed the World Trade Center, the Twin Towers.

The Building address has changed from 666 5th Ave, New York to 660 5th Ave, New York as of 2021.

666 5th Ave was given the nickname, "The Tower of Light" because of the strong illumination from the lights the building emits from its’ 72 reflecting lamps.

Lucent Technology > Lucent = Glowing with light (Luminous), or Marked by clarity.

Luc-/ Lum-/ Lux- = Light, illuminate etc

Lucent Technology
Lumon (Severance series)
Lumen (Stellar XLM)
Lucifer (Angle of Light)
Luciferase (Light-based enzyme)

Jared and Joshua Kushner
Thread 2: Joshua Kushner

Connections to Ripple, Stellar (SDF), Stripe, Thiel network and more

Thread
1/ 11

Joshua Kushner
Jared Kushner
Thrive Capital
Oscar Health
Cadre
George Soros
Altman Brothers
Collison Brothers
PayPal Mafia
Thiel Network
Stripe
Stellar
Ripple
Scooter Braun
Yellowstone Club
Forward Healthcare
+ Jared and Joshua Kushner (Thread 2: Joshua Kushner)
Thread 2: Joshua Kushner
2/ 11

Joshua Kushner

Holdings:
Thrive Capital Management (Co-founded with brother Jared Kushner)
Art.sy
Oscar Health
Cadre
Forward Healthcare

Memberships:
Yellowstone Club

Board Memberships:
42Floors
Cadre
Art.sy

Family Members (Notable, to be mentioned later in thread):
Joshua Kushner (Brother)
Charles Kushner (Father)
Karlie Kloss (Wife)
Nicole Kushner Meyer (Sister)

Social relationships:
Scooter Braun
Joel Cutler
Kevin Systrom
Wendi Murdoch

Jared and Joshua Kushner
Thread 1: Jared Kushner

Connections to Crypto, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Epstein, Thiel network and more

Thread
1/ 14

Jared Kushner
Joshua Kushner
Thrive Capital
Oscar Health
Trump family
Ken Kurson
Crypto ties
Israel/ Netanyahu
Nader/ Epstein
Saudi Arabia
Real Estate
Gary Cohn
Harlem Children’s Zone
Risa Heller
Sam Bankman-Fried
+ Jared and Joshua Kushner (Thread 1: Jared Kushner)
Thread 1: Jared Kushner
2/ 14

Jared Kushner:

Jared Kushner has an extensive reach in the elite circles around the world, including companies, politicians, oligarchs and world leaders.

Business positions include:
Kushner Companies
Thrive Capital Management (Co-founded with brother Joshua Kushner)
Affinity Partners
Cadre

Board Positions:
42Floors

Positions under President Trump (Father-in-law):
Senior Advisor to the President
Trump Transition Team Executive Committee
Office of American Innovation
Abraham Accords Peace Deal (Leader)

Holdings:
New York Observer (Observer)
Affinity Partners
Cadre
Kushner Companies
Thrive Capital
Bergel 715 Associates
Westminster Management

Family Members (Notable, to be mentioned later in thread):
Joshua Kushner (Brother)
Ivanka Trump (Wife)
Donald Trump (Father-in-law)
Charles Kushner (Father)
Karlie Kloss (In-law)
Nicole Kushner Meyer (Sister)

Social and Misc. relationships:
Steve Mnuchin
Rosemary Vrablic
Mohammad Bin Salman (Saudi Prince)
Ken Kurson
Benjamin Netanyahu
Adam Neumann
George Nader
Andrew Farkas
Tom Barrack
Jeffrey Epstein
Risa Hella
Gary Cohn
+

Lucy: 666 Fifth Avenue
1/ 8

A Thread about the strange connections surrounding:
Jared Kushner
666 (660) Fifth Ave, New York
Lucent Technologies (Nokia)
Lumon Industries (Severance)
Lumen (Stellar)
Stripe
Elon Musk
Neuralink
6G/ IoB/ Luciferase
+ Lucent Technology & 666 Fifth Ave, NYC
2/ 8

Lucent Technologies, Inc., or simply Lucent, was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. September 30th is also the date Palantir went public in 2020 and when Stellar created its’ Genesis Block.

Lucent leased office space on several floors of 666 Fifth Ave, New York. Lucent was developing software called Inferno as well as RF chip technologies until the company was eventually acquired by Nokia.

In Lucent's press release for 'Inferno', a promotional quote by Peter Bernstein, president of Infonautics Consulting, praised Lucent's software product with these words: "inferno is designed to take the chaos out of the electronic Tower of Babel".

Lucent's statement that "Inferno (internet/computer) applications are written in a new language called 'Limbo' which was designed specifically for the 'Inferno' software. Limbo, or purgatory, is when one is awaiting judgement of Heaven of Hell.

666 Fifth Ave, New York was developed by Tishman Realty & Construction Co. This is the same company that developed the World Trade Center, the Twin Towers.

The Building address has changed from 666 Fifth Ave, New York to 660 Fifth Ave, New York as of 2021.

666 Fifth Ave was given the nickname, "The Tower of Light" because of the strong illumination from the lights the building emits from its’ 72 reflecting lamps.

Lucent Technology > Lucent = Glowing with light (Luminous), or Marked by clarity.

Luc-/ Lum-/ Lux- = Light, illuminate etc

Lucent Technology
Lumon (Severance series)
Lumen (Stellar XLM)
Lucifer (Angle of Light)
Luciferase (Light-based enzyme)

Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +

Thread
1/ 10

Sun Microsystems
Oracle/ Israel
Netscape/ AOL
Mozilla Foundation
Microsoft
Infospace
XX Network/ Mixx Labs
Ripple
Stellar
Singularity University
+

Andreas Bechtolsheim
Vinod Khosla
Larry Ellison
Dave DeWalt
Steven Waterhouse
Olivier Janssens
John Doerr
James Clark
Barney Pell
David Chaum
Chris Larsen
Naveen Jain
+

Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +
Thread
2/ 10

Sun Microsystems
Part I:

Sun Microsystems co-founders include Andreas Bechtolsheim and Vinod Khosla, amongst several others.

Andreas Bechtolsheim was charged with insider trading by the SEC for the 2019 Cisco acquisition of Acacia Communications.

Andreas also has funding in Diamond Foundry, a diamond company with board member Wendi Murdoch with funding from others including: Leonardo DiCaprio, Vast Ventures (Company with ties to Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen, Ripple’s co-founders), Jeff Skoll (Epstein friend), Scott Banister of PayPal mafia) and Matias de Tezanos of PeopleFund (investor of Singularity by Barney Pell and other transhumanists and cryptographers in this thread)

Andreas made an early $1.1M seed and pre-seed investment of Google, making a small fortune from their success.

Vinod Khosla, with deep ties to crypto company investments, was also an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Vinod now runs Khosla Ventures, a VC that has funding in:
Stripe (Stellar funder)
Chain (Stellar/ Interstellar joint company)
Oscar Health, Cadre (Kushner Companies)
Lattice (Altman company)
WorldCoin (Altman company)
RainAI (Chip manufacturer for OpenAI, both Altman companies which is backed by Sound Venters Ashton Kutcher and Kushner brothers as well)
OpenDoor (Keith Rabois of PayPal mafia, Stellar board)
Affirm (Max Levchin of PayPal mafia)
Blockstream (Crypto company backed by Reid Hoffman of PayPal mafia along with other leading early cryptographers allegedly tied to Satoshi Nakamoto)
Vinod is an advisor for Deep Genomics, a company backed by Steve Jurvetson, a close Musk associate and funder, as well as a member of Creative Destruction Lab with Barney Pell, Musk’s ex Shivon Zilis, and several others.
Vinod’s wife works with Joichi Ito’s sister, Mimi Ito, at Wikimedia Foundation, backed by Open Society. Joichu Ito was director of MIT Media Labs where Epstein donated millions to fund crypto and AI related projects and Joichu Ito was a good friend of Epstein. Furthermore, Mimi’s husband, and Joichu Ito’s brother in-law, is Scott Fisher, who worked with Barney Pell at NASA for a short while, and was Nicholas Negroponte’s advisee at MIT. Nicholas Negroponte is founder of MIT Media Labs with ties to Epstein as well.

Vinod is a member of the Epstein funded “Edge Foundation” along with other major transhumanists, AI, crypto and healthcare leaders

Eric Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, he went on to be long time board member, director and even CEO of Google, as well as Alphabet, its’ parent company. Schmidt also was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001 after leaving Sun Microsystems.

Novell employed cypherpunk Chris Toshok of Netscape.

Eric Schmidt also worked at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Barney Pell of Powerset and Microsoft worked while at Stanford. Many big tech companies came out of PARC and Stanford during the early internet age.

Larry Ellison & Oracle
Thread
1/ 20

Oracle
Palantir/ Peter Thiel
Elon Musk
Israel/ IDF/ Mossad/ 8200
Epstein/ Carbyne/ Israel
Trump Administation
Ezra Cohen-Watnik/ Safra Catz
Gabe Hoffman
Qanon
Sun Microsystems
+ Larry Ellison & Oracle
Thread
2/ 20

Larry Ellison is executive chairman of Oracle Corporation and chief technology officer. He founded the company in 1977 and served as CEO until September 2014

The Maxwell Connections
Thread
1/ 5

Who was Robert Maxwell?

Robert Maxwell, born Jan Ludvick Hoch, was a British media mogul born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia. He fled to the UK during WWII where he joined the British Army. Afterwards he greatly influenced the Czechoslovakian government’s decision to arm Zionist paramilitaries during the 1948 war that resulted in Israel’s creation as a state, and Maxwell himself was also involved in the smuggling of aircraft parts to Israel. Around this time, Maxwell was approached by British intelligence outfit MI6 and offered a position that Maxwell ultimately declined. MI6 then classified him as “Zionist — loyal only to Israel” and made him a person of interest. He later became an agent of the Mossad. Post-war, Maxwell built a business empire. He bought the Daily Mirror in 1984. Maxwell's life was filled with controversies, including allegations of spying for Mossad and possibly other intelligence agencies like Russia and the CIA, financial impropriety, and his mysterious death in 1991 when he fell off his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, near the Canary Islands. His death left behind a financial scandal with his companies found to be in enormous debt, revealing a web of fraud that included stealing from his employee's pension funds. Robert Maxwell had nine children, this thread will focus on just two, Ghislaine and Isabel. Jeffrey Epstein became close with Ghislaine Maxwell shortly after the death of her father, although many people close to the Maxwells prior to Robert’s death claimed Ghislaine and Jeffrey were well acquainted since the 80’s. Ghislaine was the favorite and youngest daughter of Robert.

“Mossad was financing many of its’ operations in Europe from money stolen from Maxwell’s newspaper pension fund. They got their hands on the funds almost as soon as Maxwell made the purchase of the Mirror Newspaper Group with money lent to him by Mossad” - Victor Ostrovsky, former Mossad case officer

One of the most suspicious parts of Maxwell’s life was his death. Was it a suicide? Murder? Some claim that Mossad felt that Maxwell had become more of a liability than an asset and killed him on his yacht three months after he demanded the bailout of his media empire, which was always fully controlled and funded by Mossad. On the other extreme are theories that suggest Maxwell committed suicide because of the financial difficulties his empire faced.

Some have taken Maxwell’s funeral, held in Israel, as the country’s “official” confirmation of Maxwell’s service to the Mossad, as it was likened to a state funeral and attended by no less than six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence. During his funeral service in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.” Other eulogies were given by future Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres, with the latter also praising Maxwell’s “services” on behalf of Israel.

After Ghislaine’s father’s mysterious death and alleged murder on the same yacht that bears her name in 1991, she quickly packed her bags and moved to New York City, along with Jeffrey Epstein. A few years later, developed close ties to the Clinton family, Epstein helped found their Clinton Global Initiative. The Maxwell Connection
Thread
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The Mossad Connection

In exchange for Robert Maxwell’s services, the Mossad helped Maxwell satisfy his sexual appetite during his visits to Israel, providing him with prostitutes, “the service maintained for blackmail purposes.” It was later revealed that the hotel in which he stayed in Israel was bugged with cameras, allowing the Mossad to acquire “a small library of video footage of Maxwell in sexually compromising positions.”

Robert Maxwell was involved directly with the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel, otherwise known as Mossad. According to Robert Maxwell’s own handler, Ari Ben-Menashe, Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were spies for Mossad and ran a “honey-pot” operation, providing young and underage girls to prominent global political figures for sex and then blackmailing them to suit Israeli intelligence interests. Ari Ben-Menashe, a Mossad agent and arms dealer for Israel, was involved in many large controversial and mysterious deals, including the Iran-Contra affair and the Inslaw-PROMIS scandal. Ari Ben-Menashe said Maxwell introduced his daughter Ghislaine and Epstein to one another and Mossad.

Maxwell was also a close associate and friend of Israeli “super-spy” Rafi Eitan, who was Jonathan Pollard’s handler and who had previously worked directly with Meyer Lansky. Eitan had learned of a revolutionary new software being used by the U.S. government known as “PROMIS” from Earl Brian, a long-time associate and aide to Ronald Reagan. PROMIS is often considered the forerunner to the “PRISM” software used by spy agencies today and was developed by Bill Hamilton, who leased the software to the U.S. government through his company, Inslaw, in 1982.

Ari Ben-Menashe was involved in using Inslaw’s PROMIS technology for espionage. Ari Ben-Menashe and Rafi Eitan had worked together on setting up the US–Israeli network for covertly supplying arms to Iran. Ben-Menashe said his Iranian background provided useful connections which led to him playing an intermediary role in the Israeli effort to sell arms to Iran and were close to the Israeli government decision to back the Reagan campaign's "October Surprise" efforts to ensure American hostages held by Iran and its allies were released on a timetable that strengthened Ronald Reagan and not the incumbent US President, Jimmy Carter.

“some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail" - Ari Ben-Menashe

At the time, Eitan was the director of the now defunct Israeli military intelligence agency Lekem, which gathered scientific and technical intelligence abroad from both public and covert sources, especially in relation to Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Ben-Menashe claimed that Robert Maxwell, the owner of Mirror Group newspapers in the United Kingdom, had tipped off the Israeli embassy in 1986 about the Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu after Vanunu and a friend approached the Sunday Mirror and The Sunday Times in London with a story about Israel's nuclear capability. Vanunu was subsequently lured by Mossad agent "Cindy" (Cheryl Bentov) from London to Rome, kidnapped, returned to Israel, and sentenced to 18 years in jail. Mossad likely was informed of this through Maxwell’s connections of his media empire to Mossad.

“Mossad was financing many of its’ operations in Europe from money stolen from Maxwell’s newspaper pension fund. They got their hands on the funds almost as soon as Maxwell made the purchase of the Mirror Newspaper Group with money lent to him by Mossad” - Victor Ostrovsky, former Mossad case officer

William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, held three meetings with Epstein in 2014 while he was deputy secretary of state. The CIA describes how they were "intrigued by Epstein's reputed role as a middleman for intelligence services in the United States and abroad.” They were believed to be working with several intelligence agencies, including Israeli, British and even Russian. Robert Maxwell has also been suspected of working for more than just Mossad intelligence, including Russia intelligence. Maxwell was offered free travel to and from Soviet Russia on numerous occasions at times when almost nobody was allowed. It was feared Maxwell was a Soviet spy who tried to use his Pergamon Press publishing empire to send intelligence behind the Iron Curtain. In 1958, Senator Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of the two future US presidents, forwarded a letter from Yale University which raised questions. He claimed there were concerns Maxwell 'may be engaged in a large scale effort to transmit scientific information to the Russians.'

Rafi Eitan later recruited Robert Maxwell to become another PROMIS salesman, which he did remarkably well, even succeeding in selling the software to Soviet intelligence. The widespread adoption of the PROMIS software, largely through the actions of Earl Brian and Robert Maxwell, gave the Mossad a way to gather not just troves of counterintelligence data, but also blackmail on other intelligence agencies and powerful figures

Jeffrey Epstein may have been involved in the arms trade in the 1980s, according to Maxwell’s handler, Ari Ben-Menashe, which could have led him to work for numerous governments, including Israel, Iran and Russia. Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran; Robert Maxwell’s handler, Ari Ben-Menashe, was also involved in these arms deals and has gone on the record multiple times confirming Epstein’s involvement.

After leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, Epstein began working in the realms of shadow finance as a self-described "financial bounty hunter," where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. Epstein became well acquainted with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with Adnan Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. Leese would later introduce Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a "genius" and set up the Towers Financial Corporation, which ended up being a massive Ponzi scheme, one of the largest in history. Adnan Khashoggi sold Donald Trump his yacht which Donald Trump renamed the ‘Trump Princess’. Adnan Khashoggi had a nephew, Jamal Khashoggi, who was a Washington Post journalist. He was assassinated after he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

An Israeli insider investigated the cross-continental movements of Jeffrey Epstein's private jets from 2016 onwards, including a trip to the Middle East on the eve of the 2016 election. Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former chief strategist, sought to befriend Epstein, believing he was a spy and looking to use him as an asset and close confidant. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former Advisor and good friend, worked with the Israeli intelligence company, NSO Group, that made the infamous Pegasus spyware. Pegasus software was used to spy on and hack phones of dissidents. The spyware was used in the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who criticized the Emirates’ laws and rulers, including Mohammed bin Salman and bin Zayed. It was found many months after the assassination that Mohammed bin Salman, de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was responsible for ordering of the assassination, according to the CIA.

Michael Flynn attended the infamous meeting at Trump Tower with Psy-Group’s Joel Zamel, a professional social media psy-op campaign creator, along with Erik Prince, George Nader, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. George Nader is a convicted pedophile, advisor for Mohammed bin Salman, co-worker of Erik Prince at Blackwater, associate of Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn and has ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel intelligence. George Nader’s attorney is Alan Dershowitz, the same Attorney Donald Trump used during his impeachment trial and his longtime friend. Dershowitz was also a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his attorney. The Trump Tower meeting with the previously listed individuals was, in part, to organize and execute a political (psy-op) social media campaign using Palantir and the hacked Facebook data through Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica company in order to nudge the election in favor of Donald Trump. Michael Flynn became an advisor of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group at some point in early 2016, before the 2016 election and Trump Tower meeting. Flynn was also a major proponent for pushing Palantir technology throughout the US government agencies and other countries as well. Palantir is following a similar story as PROMIS software, likely used to spy on foreign governments and gather extremely sensitive data from other intelligence agencies like Mossad, Russia and M16. Palantir has been considered by many other countries, including German, as an AI platform controlled and used by the government.

Ari Ben-Menashe has stated that Jeffrey Epstein’s close relationship with Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, was more of a professional relationship that allowed Epstein to hand off his collected information and blackmail on US targets to him to return to Israel. Epstein and Barak are invested in an Israeli AI surveillance and software company that allows spying through devices called Carbyne. It also has investing from Palantir and Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel and Trae Stephens, both of whom were close advisers to Trump during his first term in office in 2016. Carbyne’s founder, and many members of the board, work with Israel’s Unit 8200 and IDF (Israel Defense Forces). Some also work with Erik Prince through his Blackwater or Frontier Research Group that has ties to China and the UAE.

Ehud Barak is also close to Epstein’s chief patron and Mega Group member Leslie Wexner, whose Wexner Foundation gave Barak $2 million in 2004 for a still unspecified research program. According to Barak, he was first introduced to Epstein by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who eulogized Robert Maxwell at his funeral and had decades-long ties with the Bronfman family going back to the early 1950s. Peres was also a frequent participant in programs funded by Leslie Wexner in Israel and worked closely with the Mossad for decades.

Mobilecoin (Sentz) & Signal (Open Whisper System)

A thread of the many connections between Mobilecoin, Signal, X, cypherpunks, crypto/ AI founders, intelligence affiliates, PayPal Mafia and more

Thread
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Mobilecoin
Stellar (SDF)
Signal
Stripe
Cypherpunks
X (Twitter)
Elon/ Snowden
Israel/ 8200 Unit
PayPal Mafia
WhatsApp
Intelligence
Long Now
DuckDuckGo
Google
Cash App
+
Mobilecoin & Signal
Thread
2/ 13

Mobilecoin was founded by Joshua Moldboard and Shane Glenn. Mobilecoin was rebranded to Sentz (I will still call it Mobilecoin throughout this thread for simplicity)

Mobilecoin has many connections to cypherpunks, crypto leaders, and transhumanists, including many of its’ funders and advocates.

Mobilecoin leadership, staff and members include (Notable names):

David A. Bray > Singularity University with Barney Pell, government positions
Bob Lee > Founded Cash App
Sarah Novotny > Microsft, Linux
Moxie Marlinspike > Signal founder, former X (Twitter) Security leader
Isis Lovecruft > Cypherpunk and crypto member
Renee DiResta > CIA, Stanford, Yonder, Mozilla, Thiel Fellow, PayPal mafia associate
Alex Gravely > Cypherpunk member, Github Dropbox
Brady Forrest > Microsot, Khosla Ventures (Stripe funder), Singularity, Foo Camp with Joichu Ito)

Mobilecoin investors (notable names):

Future Ventures > Steve Jurvetson (Close Elon Musk investor, DFJ)
Binance
General Catalyst > Stripe, Oscar Health, Anduril, Circle, Cadre (Close ties to Kushners and Thiel circles)
Coinbase
Alameda Research > Sam Bankman Fried/ FTX
Matt Mullenweg > Stellar advisor
10X Capital > Ripple, Palantir, Circle, 23&Me
Time Ventures > Marc Benioff (Elon/ Thiel circle)
+

MobileCoin secured $29.7 million in a funding round led by Binance Labs, in exchange for 37.5 million tokens

Mobilecoin is a member of Long Now Foundation. (More on Long Now Foundation later in this thread)

Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +

Thread
1/ 10

Sun Microsystems
Oracle/ Israel
Netscape/ AOL
Mozilla Foundation
Microsoft
Infospace
XX Network/ Mixx Labs
Ripple
Stellar
Singularity University
+

Andreas Bechtolsheim
Vinod Khosla
Larry Ellison
Dave DeWalt
Steven Waterhouse
Olivier Janssens
John Doerr
James Clark
Barney Pell
David Chaum
Chris Larsen
Naveen Jain
+

Sun Microsystems, Netscape, AOL, Mozilla +
Thread
2/ 10

Sun Microsystems
Part I:

Sun Microsystems co-founders include Andreas Bechtolsheim and Vinod Khosla, amongst several others.

Andreas Bechtolsheim was charged with insider trading by the SEC for the 2019 Cisco acquisition of Acacia Communications.

Andreas also has funding in Diamond Foundry, a diamond company with board member Wendi Murdoch with funding from others including: Leonardo DiCaprio, Vast Ventures (Company with ties to Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen, Ripple’s co-founders), Jeff Skoll (Epstein friend), Scott Banister of PayPal mafia) and Matias de Tezanos of PeopleFund (investor of Singularity by Barney Pell and other transhumanists and cryptographers in this thread)

Andreas made an early $1.1M seed and pre-seed investment of Google, making a small fortune from their success.

Vinod Khosla, with deep ties to crypto company investments, was also an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Vinod now runs Khosla Ventures, a VC that has funding in:
Stripe (Stellar funder)
Chain (Stellar/ Interstellar joint company)
Oscar Health, Cadre (Kushner Companies)
Lattice (Altman company)
WorldCoin (Altman company)
RainAI (Chip manufacturer for OpenAI, both Altman companies which is backed by Sound Venters Ashton Kutcher and Kushner brothers as well)
OpenDoor (Keith Rabois of PayPal mafia, Stellar board)
Affirm (Max Levchin of PayPal mafia)
Blockstream (Crypto company backed by Reid Hoffman of PayPal mafia along with other leading early cryptographers allegedly tied to Satoshi Nakamoto)
Vinod is an advisor for Deep Genomics, a company backed by Steve Jurvetson, a close Musk associate and funder, as well as a member of Creative Destruction Lab with Barney Pell, Musk’s ex Shivon Zilis, and several others.
Vinod’s wife works with Joichi Ito’s sister, Mimi Ito, at Wikimedia Foundation, backed by Open Society. Joichu Ito was director of MIT Media Labs where Epstein donated millions to fund crypto and AI related projects and Joichu Ito was a good friend of Epstein. Furthermore, Mimi’s husband, and Joichu Ito’s brother in-law, is Scott Fisher, who worked with Barney Pell at NASA for a short while, and was Nicholas Negroponte’s advisee at MIT. Nicholas Negroponte is founder of MIT Media Labs with ties to Epstein as well.

Vinod is a member of the Epstein funded “Edge Foundation” along with other major transhumanists, AI, crypto and healthcare leaders

Eric Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, he went on to be long time board member, director and even CEO of Google, as well as Alphabet, its’ parent company. Schmidt also was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001 after leaving Sun Microsystems.

Novell employed cypherpunk Chris Toshok of Netscape.

Eric Schmidt also worked at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where Barney Pell of Powerset and Microsoft worked while at Stanford. Many big tech companies came out of PARC and Stanford during the early internet age.

Rothschild, Soros & Rockefeller
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James Rothschild
RIT Capital Partners (Rothschild Investment Trust)

George Soros
Soros Fund Management

David Rockefeller
Venrock

Connections to Ripple, Polysign, Relationship Science, Palantir + Rothschild, Soros, & Rockefeller
Thread
2/ 7

James Rothschild
RIT Capital Partners (Rothschild Investment Trust)

Investments include:
Kraken
Animoca Brands
Paxos
Relationship Science
Aspen Digital

Aspen Digital funding from:
RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust)
Chatchaval Jiaravanon
Liberty City Ventures
SNZ Holdings

Both RIT and Liberty City Ventures fund:
Animoca Brands
Aspen Digital
Paxos
Bitgo

Animoca Brands funds Ripple’s Mintable NFT platform, along with Ashton Kutcher through his Sound Ventures, Ashton Kutcher is a Ripple promoter)

Kraken’s founder and former CEO Jesse Powell funded Ripple in 2012 when it was founded.

Chatchaval Jiaravanon is Lightens/ Velo co-founder (Velo acquired Interstellar from Stellar and Chain, Jed McCaleb is advisor for Lightnet and Velo, founder of Ripple and Stellar)

SNZ Holdings funds Mask Network which is also funded by:
Animoca Brands
Hard Yaka (Ripple CRO Greg Kidd founded) > Which also funds Ripple ties Uphold, Global ID, Puma Browser (All tied directly to Ripple money and people)
Dapper Labs (Funded by George Soros, Soros Fund Management)

Paxos is funded by:
RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust)
Liberty City Ventures
PayPal Ventures
Mithril Capital (Thiel VC)
RRE Ventures

Bitgo has funding and relationships with several people, including Ashton Kutcher, who are invested or worked with Ripple and or funded Ripple.