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Did Bitcoin Epstein Itself?! | Simply Originals · Simply Bitcoin

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What the hell just happened? Coin has crashed to 72 K.
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We're at 73 K as of this recording.
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Well, I think we might have an idea.
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If you aren't living under a rock, you may have discovered
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how the world actually works. That's right, you can wear your
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tinfoil hats with pride because every single conspiracy theory
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just got verified. The government was shut down.
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The Epstein files dropped. So did Bitcoin and some
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Bitcoiners actually made an appearance.
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Normies now think Epstein is Satoshi.
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This is where we are in the story.
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But bad news for the bears, Bitcoin just proved it once
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again. It can't.
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Unlike the government and politicians, it can't be Co
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opted. Not even by the Rothschilds and
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their filth and contributions. Oh yeah, that's right, the world
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is now discovering what we've known all along.
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And when we all decide to look back on all this, you're
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probably going to wish you bought the Epstein dip of 2026.
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Welcome back. I'm Rustin and we get a lot to
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get to today. The last thing I will let happen
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to humanity is Jeffrey Epstein rob us humans of the invention
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that is Bitcoin. What is transpired with these
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e-mail leaks and all of this data leak?
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Guys, it's very simple. The current system is disgusting
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and for the future of our species and the future of our
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children, we have to fix it. We are battling the battle for
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human prosperity in the future for our kids.
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You have disgusting pedophilic monsters running institutions,
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governments, countries making extremely important decisions.
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We have to burn this existing system to the ground.
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Listen, we did not have a say in what we inherited.
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I'm young. I did not have a say in the
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world I inherited. But I'll be damned if I don't
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have a say in the world that I build, in the world that my kids
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inherit. Bitcoin will work.
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Open source software and distributed systems will
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prosper. Bitcoin is an open source
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project, meaning we get to see and audit everything.
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We can look at the code. If they implemented a back door,
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if they implemented something that was nefarious and malicious
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and destructive, we'd be able to see it.
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Bitcoin is a public utility, it's open to the world and so we
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can all see it. Bitcoin is well engineered and
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functioning and it doesn't matter what emails get leaked,
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the open source code doesn't change.
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Was a bad person involved when FIRE was invented?
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It doesn't matter. FIRE is a utility.
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People can benefit from FIRE. How good of a person were the,
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you know, early Internet pioneers?
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Does anyone know? I guess the point is bitcoins,
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an open source utility. It's a neutral thing.
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It doesn't have feelings, emotions, intense.
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It's just a bunch of code that delivers a very useful utility,
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like water, like fire, like steel.
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The last thing I will let happen to humanity is Jeffrey Epstein.
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Rob us humans of the invention that is Bitcoin.
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That's the last thing I will do these people.
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If I have to go on CNBC every single day to ensure that the
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public knows that that guy has nothing to do with the
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credibility of this invention and how monumental it is for all
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of us to be living in this time and making use of this
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technology, I will do that. I will be damned if this guys
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emails from a decade ago get in the way of Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin doesn't give a shit and neither should anybody else.
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All the. Hullabaloo will A newly released
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batch of Epstein files reveals previously unseen communications
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and financial ties between Jeffrey Epstein and several
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influential figures connected to early Bitcoin development.
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The documents span nearly seven years and show Epstein sustained
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interest in Bitcoin. He donated roughly 850,000 to
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MIT between 2002 and 2017, including 525,000 to the MIT
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Media Labs digital currency initiative after the Bitcoin
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Foundation collapsed in 2015. Some of this funding indirectly
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supported Bitcoin Core developers who joined the Media
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Lab. Epstein was in frequent contact
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with MIT Media Lab director Juichi Ito, who described on of
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Bitcoin Core developers is a quote big win.
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Helping to position MIT is a central hub for Bitcoin protocol
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work. Emails show direct communication
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between Epstein and Jeremy Rubin, cofounder of the MIT
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Digital Currency Initiative. Beginning in 2014, Rubens sought
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funding for research and crypto projects, and Epstein offered
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multiple funding structures while warning that efforts to,
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quote, pump the currency were dangerous.
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Ruben has since said that the engagement was limited and
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professional and welcomed the release of the emails.
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The files also reference Gavin Anderson, Vladimir Vanderland
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and Corey Fields, who joined MIT's DCI in 2015.
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While their names appear in internal emails discussing
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funding after the Bitcoin Foundation's bankruptcy, there
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is no evidence Vanderland or Fields communicated directly
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with Epstein. Anderson declined meeting
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requests from Epstein as early as 2011 and has not commented
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publicly. Early Bitcoin contributor Amir
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Taki also appears in the files through emails exchanged with
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Epstein in 2011. Paki later said communications
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were cut after Epstein's background became clear.
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The documents further referenced Brock Pierce and Coinbase, with
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Epstein reportedly investing $3,000,000 in 2014.
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There is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by people named.
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However, the disclosures highlight Epstein's repeated
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attempts to use his wealth and connections to engage with
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bitcoins development during its formative years.
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Oh shit, I said it wasn't going to stoop to that level, no pun
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intended. That that joke literally wrote
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itself. But you guys heard the
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conspiracies about Bitcoin Core being compromised, and then,
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well, all this comes out. And when he saw the issues
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surrounding Core 30, you may have thought, whoa, that's
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preposterous. These people are nuts.
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But when people are dealing with the devil, you can't help but
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think they may have devilish intent.
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Their trust becomes lost and, well, competition brings balance
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back to the force. Now check out this breakdown
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from Bruce Fenton, who was inside at the time all this was
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going on. Check it out.
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So did Epstein have influence on Bitcoin?
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Short answer is no. You know, I've watched these
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things a lot. I'm very aware of it.
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A lot of the controversy around this Epstein thing was he
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donated money to a thing called the Digital Currency Initiative.
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Actually, I think he could. He donated to Media Lab, which
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ran Digital Currency Initiative. I ran the Bitcoin Foundation
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actually, and the Bitcoin Foundation used to fund Bitcoin
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developers. And then MIT took that over and
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the bottom line, he made a donation.
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No, he didn't have influence. It doesn't work that way.
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So even if Epstein had heavy influence and that's what the
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donation was for, Joy Ito, who ran that, the thing was
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basically saying to a donor, hey, here's a good thing your
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donation went to, that's it. It was one of many, many
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donations. And he was just trying to like
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say, hey, here's some things that we did.
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We're funding Bitcoin development.
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Did Bitcoin, did Epstein have involvement?
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Absolutely no. No evidence whatsoever.
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And even if there was like it doesn't, Bitcoin doesn't work
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that way. So did MIT have influence?
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No, Also no. The developers, when they, when
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we stopped funding those developers, MIT started.
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Part of the deal they made is that MIT wouldn't tell them what
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to do. It would have been a huge
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scandal if MIT told them what to do.
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And if they did, everybody would see what they wrote.
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So if MIT was like here, have this secret, whatever code that
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would, you know, help Epstein somehow or something.
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I mean, there's just no such thing.
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But even if it did, that doesn't control anything.
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They could have written all the code they wanted.
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That still wouldn't have been part of the network.
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The Bitcoin network would have had to accept that through the
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nodes and the miners. So it's just, it's just falls on
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top. I get out, I get how it people
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don't understand how it works. Could think that, but it's just
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falls on top of false. On top of false.
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No, we didn't have influence. MIT didn't even have influence.
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Even if somebody did, that's not how it works.
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Influence doesn't work that way. I could fund somebody and pay a
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developer and tell them what to do.
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People used to say the same thing when Bitcoin Foundation
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ran it. They said, oh, we're
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influencing. It doesn't work that way.
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We never told them what to write.
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But even if we did and we said write this code, give Bruce 1000
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extra coins, A, everybody would see that and B, nobody would
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accept that it wouldn't be part of the Bitcoin code, the Bitcoin
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code. Anybody can write anything they
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want, but what is accepted is only what the nodes and minors
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say is the code. And that's very publicly
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available. It's the most scrutinized code
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there is. There's nothing like somebody
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slipped something in there and then there's no real evidence
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that, you know, anybody really cared at that stage.
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Like, like, you know, like that there was some sort of nefarious
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effort by MIT to try and Co opt this.
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Certainly not on behalf of Epstein or anybody else.
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There's other bad things MIT has done.
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You know, I, I think it's questionable that they even
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worked with the guy. Of course, taking his money.
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Yeah, not good. But they've also been really
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involved with CBD, CS and things like that, which are much, much,
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much worse. There's all kinds of issues in
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the space. There's all kinds of issues with
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Epstein, obviously 10 million things.
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There's, there's many issues with, with Bitcoin and things
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that are worthy of criticism. But this isn't 1.
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I mean, it's just, it's just, it's really is a nothing burger.
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It's just not how the code works and it's not how reality
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happened. So you know that that sort of
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meme that's going around is just not worth anything.
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Bitcoin showed during the block size wars, and today that
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attacks only harden Bitcoin. Whatever side you're on, you
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can't say that this kind of behavior in ties hasn't ruined
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trust and credibility. And in a free market, responses
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are made. You remember when Sailor
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mentioned this a few years ago? Want to introduce a new protocol
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change that may have catastrophic or structural
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inflationary impact, or it may have regulatory impact.
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It it may deprive someone of their property rights.
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It it, it, it may create an A moral hazard, an ethical hazard,
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an economic hazard, an engineering hazard.
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All of these things need to be considered.
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And when you get in a hurry, when you know what happened,
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when you get in a hurry in a war, whether it's a war on COVID
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or whether it's an actual war, what happens is a central
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planner jams this down that society.
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We implement the draft, you go to war, you kill people.
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We implement medical policy, we implement lockdown policy, we
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implement centrally planned banking policy.
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There wasn't time. We had to shut down that bank.
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We had to shut, we had to shut down 40 million businesses.
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Why? We had to do it for the good of
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the people. And, and so I think that there's
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a lot of bad decisions that are made when you get in a hurry.
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And fundamentally, I would say I'm not in favor of central
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planning. And I think that most of the
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Bitcoin community doesn't agree with central planning.
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So why would you want a dozen developers to centrally plan the
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protocol and then to make changes because they think it's
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academically, theoretically good for everybody?
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You get to. Make the decisions for the next
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1000 years for 10 billion people just because you have a good
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idea. And my answer is no, I don't.
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I don't think that it's wise for us to encourage people to play
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God. I think you get to play God.
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Once Satoshi played God, I think the rest of us ought to have the
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humility to say we're not Satoshi.
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By the the odds were 10,000 and one against Satoshi.
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Satoshi rolled the dice, he won, we're good.
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But now the way that empires fall is the person that in that
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inherited the United States, that inherits Bitcoin, that
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inherits the corporation, they think they're just as smart and
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they're just going to go ahead and roll the dice just as hard
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and they're going to play God. And I think the, the, the
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history books show the result. The result is they always fail.
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The empires always crash and burn and the things that last
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are these protocols that we, that we have respect for, like
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Arabic numerals, like I, like, I, I understand protocols
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evolve, Peter, like the English language, the English language
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has evolved over 1000 years, you know, and if you go back to the
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King James Bible, you know, you can see, you can understand it,
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but it's obviously used differently today.
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I'm OK with the protocol evolving over 400 years,
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carefully, conservatively, deliberately, because everybody
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says it's in our collective economic and political interest
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to do this. I'm just skeptical of people
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that have good ideas that are in a hurry, that would like to
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change the entire network because it would be.
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Maybe it would make their project easier.
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Willie may have been on to something.
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And wait a minute, was Giga chat in the files?
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Give me an example of something you can own $100 million of,
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where you can take personal custody of it and where you can
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actually move it anywhere on earth, and where even if I hold
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a gun to your head, I can't take it from you.
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And the only thing we've ever figured out that you can do that
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with his Bitcoin. And so Bitcoin is like it.
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It keeps everybody honest. The optionality to do this means
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that all you got to do is find one bank in Singapore that'll
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treat you better than the bank in New York or London or Tokyo.
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And then you can move it in 1/2 an hour for 5 bucks.
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And what happens next? The bank in New York thinks,
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well, I guess we can't screw these guys over because in
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they'll just move to Singapore. And the guys in California say,
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well, I can't, I can't just tax all the Bitcoin in California.
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It'll move to Wyoming, it'll move to Singapore, it'll move to
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Malta. And at the end of the day, you
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can tell everybody to go fuck themselves.
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You can put it in your head, memorize the freaking key,
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right? And it's here.
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And then, you know, the classic Bitcoiner response is, Oh yeah,
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my Bitcoin, I lost it in a boating accident.
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You ever heard that phrase? It's it's kind of a.
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Trope but. What it means is at the end of
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the day, if you push me too far, I lost it.
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It's gone. Sorry, tax that.
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What you just witnessed are levels of autism the normie mind
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cannot comprehend, and neither can the criminal mind, because
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actually Sailor did make an appearance and he got absolutely
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cooked by Epstein's publicist. You can see what she said.
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But you cannot ignore the power of autism, the power that saved
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Sailor. Also, you know who wasn't
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mentioned in the files? This guy.
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That's right. And God, this meme is hilarious.
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So what did we learn today? Well, we learned that in times
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of strife, or if you end up in a precarious situation, if you
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happen to walk into some Eyes Wide Shut type shit, you unleash
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your full inner autism. Let it flow out from you.
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It's like a force field that'll save you from the demons.
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And Speaking of demons, and despite people returning to
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their normal jobs after learning that the world is led by
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bloodthirsty psychopaths simply accepting it and just moving on,
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they there, there's, they say it's all over.
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That's it. Packing up, nothing to see here.
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But is it actually over? Or is the new digital Epstein
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already unleashed? Is real and blackmail.
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They don't really need blackmail anymore.
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And I argue at the end of my book that Palantir, Peter
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Thiel's company, really makes it so that, I mean, that's the new
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Jeffrey Epstein at the end of the day.
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If they want to blackmail you or know something about you, they
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just access what Palantir sucked up about you and your search
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history, your communications, your finances, tweets you've
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liked in the past, all sorts of things.
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You don't really need Epstein in the surveillance era, you know?
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Do you think when they said tweets are private it was just
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an inducement to get us out of like what we really want to like
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so they can hold it against us? Later it's possible if they want
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to hold it against you later. The disturbing thing about
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Palantir is that it's really about pre crime.
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They were The Pioneers of predictive policing.
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You know, they were originally, well, almost everywhere they
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piloted predictive policing have been low income minority
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neighborhoods where they decide who's going to commit a crime
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before they commit it and that's you know it.
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We'll see administrative detention maybe if we can go the
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but Trump actually in his first term posited this program to
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stop mass before they happen. That would basically involve
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going over American social media posts and identifying if they
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had early warning signs of neuropsychiatric illness based
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on their, you know, tweets or Facebook posts.
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And if they were determined by the algorithm to show those
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warning signs, they could be, you know, placed under house
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arrest or go to sessions with a court ordered psychologist and
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all sorts of things. My extended relatives better be
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careful because they got some wild Facebook posts I had to
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leave the app. To a lot of Americans.
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And it's worth pointing out that a lot of social media companies
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like Facebook have a lot of ties to Peter Thiel at the same time
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he was setting up Palantir. And that Facebook has a lot of
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similarities to a failed DARPA project called Lifelog that
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arguably Facebook was resurrected into.
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Because Palantir is the resurrection of another DARPA
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program called Total Information Awareness that was so scandalous
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when it was announced. It was defunded by Congress.
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But then they realized that if they turned it into a private
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company, no one would complain. And that's how we got Palantir.
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So. Now here's what we actually
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learned today. We learned that Bitcoin doesn't
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care who you are. It doesn't care how rich you
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are. It doesn't care how connected
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you are, and it definitely doesn't care how badly you want
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control. Government shutdown files get
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dumped. Powerful people try to get close
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money tries to influence narratives, try to bend the
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protocol, And every single time, Bitcoin keeps producing blocks.
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That's the part they still don't understand.
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You can corrupt governments, you can corrupt politicians, you can
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corrupt institutions, you can corrupt people, you can corrupt
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universities, foundations, media labs, and funding pipelines.
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But you can't corrupt math, you can't bribe proof of work, you
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can't threaten a node, you can't Epstein A decentralized network.
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That's why the price dipped and that's why it's kind of snapped
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back because markets may panic, but the protocol never does.
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So maybe this wasn't the Epstein files movement.
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Maybe this was the stress test, the reminder, the proof that
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even when the ugliest true surface Bitcoin walks away
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stronger. And years from now, when people
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ask what happened in 2026, they won't remember the headlines.
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They won't remember the fear. They'll just say, yeah, that was
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