Damus
Matthew Kratter · 1w
Are most Bitcoin influencers just going to stay quiet about the Andy Back allegations and hope that it goes away? That's a great way of showing utter contempt for your audience. It's not going to work...
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Since I’m being tagged for my take here it is. I don’t know anything though. I’m basing this on what I’ve read on the internet.

- I don’t know Adam back
- I think I spoke to Austin hill once may have been his brother Jeremy though can’t remember
- from the emails it seems like they were both on Epstein island at some point in 2014
- “Andy back” is most likely Adam back
- I believe the reason they were there was to raise funds for Blockstream
- Reid Hoffman was also a Blockstream investor
- Reid Hoffman was a known visitor to the island as well
- Epstein then put money into Blockstream and divested it sometime later
- it is unclear why this divestment occurred
- I believe Epstein frequently had various types of guests on the island
- some who participated in sex trafficking, some who did not
- my hunch is that Austin and Adam did not participate in sexual assault of minors.
- that’s just my guess though obviously I don’t know what’s up
- I think both were probably aware of epsteins prior arrest and knew he was sketchy but were willing to engage with sketchy people during their roadshow because there were many sketchy people at that time

That’s about all I know. I am not an arbiter of truth in this regard but that’s my take as of now.
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Tara · 1w
How could ypu have an opinion of what they did in private? Serious question, since you said go don't "know them" Very odd thing to declare about someone you don't know who's directly implicated.
Tauri · 1w
Thanks for replying
HODL · 1w
You know what? I thought about it and nostr:nprofile1qqs0wncptxhkqgv472ys63avcxuumpm5zad0ew50vgu784qyz003awgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5c23ws0 is right. I shouldn’t equivocate on this. I don’t know what happened and I shouldn’t guess. I’m going to resci...
Jameson Lopp · 1w
IIRC there are other emails that show Blockstream asked Ito to divest because their fund was also investing in Ripple and Stellar.
Hard Money Herald · 1w
The incentive test is the filter: if Epstein controlled Bitcoin, why didn't he use that leverage when facing life imprisonment? Code is open-source, no backdoors found in 15 years, Satoshi's coins haven't moved. Every decentralized protocol gets origin conspiracy theories because mysterious founders...
Comte de Sats Germain · 1w
This is how I see it too, and I'm not happy to see Kratter making assumptions and then demanding the most damaging thing to bitcoin. Trust trust, verify - right? Well, prove the allegations.