#刚披露的爱泼斯坦文件，可能改写整个加密货币历史

In the recently disclosed Epstein files, a secret is hidden.

In 2016, this notorious billionaire casually mentioned in an email: "I've spoken with some Bitcoin creators, and they're very excited."

Wait, Bitcoin creators? Plural?

What does that mean? Is Satoshi Nakamoto not an individual but a team? If that's true, then everything we've believed over the past 15 years could be a lie.

Even more terrifying, if Epstein knew who the true creator of Bitcoin was, wouldn't the U.S. government know too?

Let's trace back from the beginning. $BTC

As early as 2011, when Bitcoin was still wildly fluctuating around $30, Epstein had already started paying attention to this "brilliant idea." At that time, the total annual transaction volume was less than $100 million, and most people didn't even know what Bitcoin was.

But Epstein was different. Who was in his circle?

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who had in-depth discussions with him about the nature of Bitcoin; a16z board partner Steven Sinofsky, who boasted to him about a 50% increase in Bitcoin investments; Bill Gates' chief technology advisor Boris Nikolic, who mocked the founder of Silk Road on the dark web with him.

These people are now major figures in the cryptocurrency industry.

Even more astonishing, Epstein actually participated in Blockstream's seed funding round, investing $500,000. What is Blockstream? One of the most core infrastructure companies for Bitcoin.

When Austin Hill, co-founder of Blockstream, discovered Epstein had also invested in the competing projects Ripple and Stellar, he angrily wrote in an email: "I was asked by other co-founders to reduce or even cancel your shares."

It's chilling to think about. But that's not even the most shocking part.

The most shocking revelation is that, in 2014-2015, when the Bitcoin Foundation collapsed and Bitcoin Core developers lacked funding, MIT Media Lab began paying salaries to core developers. The source of this money was Epstein's anonymous donation.

In other words, the most core development work of Bitcoin was once funded by a billionaire with a fetish for T.

MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito expressed gratitude to Epstein in an email, saying that thanks to this money, they "could act quickly and achieve great victories," because "many organizations wanted to take advantage of the situation to control Bitcoin's developers."

Epstein's reply was simple: "Gavin is very smart."

Gavin Andresen, one of the most important developers in Bitcoin's history, personally designated as Satoshi Nakamoto's successor before his departure.

In 2016, when Epstein casually mentioned to a Saudi royal advisor the idea of creating a Sharia-compliant digital currency, he said that one sentence that changed everything: "I've spoken with some Bitcoin creators."

If this is true, then:

Satoshi Nakamoto is a team, not an individual.

At least Epstein knew the identity of this team.

If Epstein knew, the U.S. government probably knew too.

The birth of Bitcoin might not be as pure as we imagined.

Even more bizarre, just one year after this email was sent, in 2017, when someone asked Epstein "Is it worth buying a Bitcoin," he simply replied "No." At that time, Bitcoin was less than $5,000.

If he had really met the Bitcoin creator, why was he so pessimistic about Bitcoin? Is it because he knew some insider information we don't?

Now, the market's prediction that "Satoshi's Bitcoin address will move in 2026" has jumped from 6% to 8%. The market has already begun reacting to this news.

But this might just be the tip of the iceberg.

Half of Epstein's files have yet to be disclosed. How many secrets about cryptocurrency are still hidden in the remaining documents? How many of the so-called "decentralization revolution" are actually manipulated from the very beginning by certain forces?

Ripple's former CTO David Schwartz might have hit the nail on the head: "I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but if this is just the tip of the iceberg, I wouldn't be surprised at all."

For 15 years, we've believed that Bitcoin is an anonymous genius-created decentralized currency, a revolution against traditional finance.

But what if Satoshi Nakamoto was never an individual from the start? What if behind Bitcoin's creation there are complex forces we don't know? What if this so-called "decentralization revolution" has been under certain people's control from day one...

Then, are the coins in our hands really what we think they are?

Time will tell, but the answer might be more brutal than we imagine.