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How an $8 Billion Gap Brought Down the FTX Crypto Empire

How an $8 Billion Gap Brought Down the FTX Crypto Empire

Months before FTX collapsed in November 2022, a telling conversation took place on a paddle court at the Albany resort in the Bahamas. Software developer Adam Yadidia confronted Sam Bankman-Fried with a stark technical finding: once the platform's automated deposit tracking code was corrected in June 2022, it

Silk Road Agents Thought Bitcoin Would Hide Them, It Did Not

Silk Road Agents Thought Bitcoin Would Hide Them, It Did Not

In January 2013, federal agents staged one of the more unusual operations in the history of digital law enforcement. A controlled delivery of cocaine was sent to Curtis Green, a 47-year-old Silk Road moderator living in Spanish Fork, Utah, who answered his door with a pink walking cane and two

Bitcoin and Crypto Are Challenging the Century Old Federal Reserve System

Bitcoin and Crypto Are Challenging the Century Old Federal Reserve System

Few moments in American legislative history carry as much long-term weight as the final weeks of 1913. On December 23 of that year, with most of Congress already home for the Christmas holiday, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law. Earlier that same year, on February 3,

Crypto, Jared Kushner, and the Shadow Network Behind the Money Flows

Jeffrey Epstein

Crypto, Jared Kushner, and the Shadow Network Behind the Money Flows

When the Justice Department quietly released a tranche of FBI interviews and internal Deutsche Bank records as part of the recent Epstein files, most of the recent news headlines have been focused on Jeffrey Epstein. But buried in the documents is a different story, one that sits at the intersection

Epstein Files Reveal How Banks Shape a Hidden Financial World

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein Files Reveal How Banks Shape a Hidden Financial World

Central banks manufacture scarcity to keep the world grinding. And now, fresh evidence from the Epstein files puts a human and very elite face on the other side of that system: private banking empires built for the ultra-wealthy, hidden behind layers most people never see. This isn't theory.

How Central Banks Create Scarcity and Why Bitcoin Offers a Way Out

How Central Banks Create Scarcity and Why Bitcoin Offers a Way Out

We are conditioned to exist within a state of perpetual exhaustion, sacrificed on the altar of the "rat race" which demands our every waking hour. We trade our vitality, our health, and our very sanity for a resource we are told is finite, yet the institutional hegemony reveals

Joi Ito Leaves Japanese Government Tech Project After Epstein Files Released

Joi Ito Leaves Japanese Government Tech Project After Epstein Files Released

Joi Ito is stepping away from a major government technology initiative in Japan after new attention on his long‑running ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Ito, who previously resigned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019 after revelations about his handling of Epstein‑linked donations, said he will not seek

Puppet Masters: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Bitcoin

Jeffrey Epstein

Puppet Masters: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Bitcoin

Looking back from the vantage point of February 2026, the release of the Jeffrey Epstein emails remains one of the most significant intelligence dumps of the century. Yet, as mainstream media predictably fixated on the prurient and sensational, they missed the far more systemic financial scandal hiding in plain sight.

Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Forces Behind Tether’s USDT Dominance

Jeffrey Epstein

Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Forces Behind Tether’s USDT Dominance

In the swirling nexus of finance, politics, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency, few figures cast as long a shadow as much as Howard Lutnick. As Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick has positioned himself at the heart of the stablecoin space, particularly through his firm's stewardship of Tether (USDT)

Mapping Out Epstein's Shadow Network of Bitcoin Influence and Hidden Capital Flows

Jeffrey Epstein

Mapping Out Epstein's Shadow Network of Bitcoin Influence and Hidden Capital Flows

In the sprawling archives of Jeffrey Epstein's emails and documents, unleashed by the U.S. Department of Justice in late 2025 and early 2026, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency emerges not as a passing fascination, but as a meticulously woven thread in the financier's web of power, secrecy,

Blockstream, Bitcoin Belle, and Epstein: Untangling Bitcoin's Early Connections

Jeffrey Epstein

Blockstream, Bitcoin Belle, and Epstein: Untangling Bitcoin's Early Connections

In the nascent world of Bitcoin, where libertarians and visionaries converged to challenge traditional finance, personal relationships often intertwined with professional ambitions. One such story revolves around Austin Hill, co-founder of Blockstream, and Michele Seven, better known as Bitcoin Belle, a prominent networker in the early Bitcoin days. Their connection,

Unmasking Andean Medjedovic: The Fugitive Math Prodigy Behind DeFi's Biggest Heists

Unmasking Andean Medjedovic: The Fugitive Math Prodigy Behind DeFi's Biggest Heists

Andean Medjedovic sits at the center of one of the cryptocurrency world's most gripping sagas as a 22-year-old Canadian prodigy turned fugitive accused of siphoning $65 million from decentralized finance platforms. Federal charges unsealed in February 2025 paint him as the mastermind behind sophisticated exploits on Indexed Finance