A theory so outrageous it almost sounds believable… until you check the facts.
Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 and was actively coding through 2009–2010.
At that exact time, Jeffrey Epstein was either in jail or under strict state supervision in Florida — not secretly operating as the most disciplined anonymous cryptographer on earth.
The MIT angle?
Yes, Epstein donated to the MIT Media Lab under an alias.
No, there is zero evidence that any of that money went into Bitcoin development or the Digital Currency Initiative. That funding came later from people like Reid Hoffman and Fred Wilson after the Bitcoin Foundation collapsed.
Epstein chased prestige. Satoshi built a protocol.
The emails expose the truth.
In 2014 and 2018, Epstein emailed Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon asking basic questions about crypto — regulation, taxes, distribution.
If he were Satoshi, he wouldn’t need beginner explanations a decade later. He was trying to understand crypto, not invent it.
The networking claim fails too.
Epstein met Brock Pierce, Larry Summers, and others in 2014 — when Bitcoin was already famous. That doesn’t make you the creator. It makes you late to the party.
Contact books and travel logs? Epstein collected names to inflate his image. Being listed is not evidence of collaboration.
There’s also no history of Epstein coding in C++, participating in cypherpunk circles, or producing any work aligned with Bitcoin’s philosophy.
What he did have was a pattern of attaching himself to powerful ideas after they became influential.
And here’s the part that’s mind-blowing:
Some people are panic-selling Bitcoin over this theory.
If an unproven rumor about a dead man can shake your conviction, you never understood Bitcoin.
Even if the worst person alive had created Bitcoin, it wouldn’t change what Bitcoin is.
Bitcoin is:
Open-source
Decentralized
Permissionless
Independent of any founder or personality
Who created it cannot control it.
Who created it cannot change it.
Who created it is irrelevant.
If this rumor makes you dump your
$BTC …
You were never a true Bitcoin holder to begin with.
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