Overview
- Emails show Jeffrey Epstein invested $3 million in Coinbase in 2014 at roughly a $400 million valuation, with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam aware and about half the stake sold back to Blockchain Capital in 2018.
- Blockstream’s Adam Back confirmed Epstein’s involvement tied to a Joi Ito-managed fund during the company’s 2014 seed round, while stating the firm has no current financial connection to Epstein or his estate.
- Correspondence reveals repeated post-2008 communications with Tether co-founder Brock Pierce that included sexually explicit references, plus a documented Bitcoin meeting at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse with Larry Summers.
- Records capture Epstein discussing crypto regulation and taxes with Steve Bannon in 2018, proposing a Treasury voluntary disclosure for crypto gains, and debating Bitcoin’s identity in a 2014 exchange with Peter Thiel.
- Epstein raised funding-ethics concerns in an email to Bitcoin researcher Jeremy Rubin, and separate notes reference figures such as Vitalik Buterin only indirectly through third-party messages.