Unsealed files confirm that Epstein’s donations to the MIT Media Lab directly supported early Bitcoin development:
MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI): Epstein provided “gift funds” totaling roughly $850,000 to the DCI. Epstein was tracking Bitcoin as early as 2011 and discussed its definition (as a store of value vs. currency) with Peter Thiel in 2014 .
Jeffrey Epstein stated Bitcoin was “not worth buying” in a 2017 email correspondence