This is for all the "Bitcoin is Epstein's coin" people:
Even if we grant that unsavory money touched some individuals adjacent to Bitcoin Core for some time, it would tell us almost nothing about Bitcoin itself.
Open-source protocols are not personality cults but adversarial systems precisely designed to survive compromised actors.
You don’t defeat cryptography by pointing at sinners but by breaking the math.
If Bitcoin can be corrupted by funding a few developers for some years, then it was never decentralized to begin with and yet no one has demonstrated such a failure at the protocol level: no backdoor, no hidden "Epstein exploit", nothing.
I think the real question here is "Why was someone like Epstein interested in Bitcoin at all?"
After all, one of the many signals emerging from the Epstein files is that the “goyim” are remarkably easy to control: just feed them imaginary money, while the elites quietly use the real deal.
Instead of attacking Bitcoin on the basis of nothing, it might be time to fully embrace it, as a way out of a system engineered by corrupt pedophiles.
Seeing bitcoiners believing in those fake files is even more disappointing.
Do you remember the Operation Mockingbird ?
ofc you don't, because if you remember it, you wouldn't post about epstein files, you would use your brain...
I have news for you: that operation never stopped...
This is how they feed you information they want you to see (not the real one).
All "released data" about Epstein are fabricated data to feed a narrative that they want it into your brain.
Don't believe it? Fine. read the book "Propaganda" by Ed Bernays and you will know better how they operate.
LITERALLY, IF YOU BELIEVE ANY OF THOSE "EPSTEIN RELEASED FILES" YOU ARE A DAMN FOOL, EASILY MANIPULATED.
@Darthcoin refuses to attach LN wallets to his Stacker News account because???
He claimed it would stress his nodes.
He claimed Stacker News is just a game and using sats here makes no difference.
Now he claims CCs are no different to sats and they are actually better because they are more reliable than sats!
Yes really... @DarthCoin said this-
https://stacker.news/items/1424601?commentId=1425329
This is the most incredible lame ass BullShit.
It is not credible.
@Darthcoin is not being honest- he is hiding something- but what?
What is the real reason @Darthcoin refuses to use sats here on Stacker News?
We can only speculate.
Maybe he is a government agent sent to infiltrate and gather info on the Libertarian/Bitcoin community.
Maybe he is just a whopping hypocrit.
Maybe he is scared to breach tax reporting obligations.
Maybe all of the above.
@Dartcoin might just be an idiot taking the piss, or he is a real and nasty menace...or something in between.
But he is somewhere there ~ on that spectrum.
If Satoshi was an evil asshole, wouldn't change anything about Bitcoin.
Correct!!
Exactly
We can't really help the weak minded. The best we can do is ignore them and keep using bitcoin. Even if they never get it... They will benefit from it
I'd be a lot more worried if epstein DIDN'T use bitcoin.
It's just the Liz Warren / Jamie Diamond "only drug dealers and terrorists use it" scare tactic. You just have to counter that with "you've never heard of a government supporting those things before?"
And, "the US and its allies could eradicate WMDs if they were the only ones who possessed them, but they aren't, so therefore they can't give them up. And by that same logic, I will never give up my Bitcoin, which subverts all state violence and agents like Epstein"
He also touched dollars.
I think Epstein was in jail when satoshi launched Bitcoin
The files are just food for the social media industrial complex the elite are just toying the populist.
Those who believe in this narrative are being sold a bag of dicks.