Andresen was the successor to Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Nakamoto personally selected Andresen to be the lead maintainer of Bitcoin improvement and gave him Commit key entry.
The newly disclosed sequence of occasions is remarkably coincidental.
Nakamoto retired on April 26, 2011, someday earlier than Andresen introduced that he was going to discuss Bitcoin on the CIA headquarters in June.
Though Nakamoto by no means blamed Andresen’s choice for prompting his retirement, there’s widespread hypothesis that he was sad about Andresen attracting authorities consideration to Bitcoin improvement.
Regardless of Nakamoto’s resignation, Andresen followed-through on his controversial April promise, talking on the CIA headquarters on June 14, 2011 to debate Bitcoin.
Two days earlier than his CIA speech, Epstein spoke with Andresen
Whether or not Epstein’s discussions with Andresen concerned the CIA is tough to find out based mostly on their correspondence.
Furthermore, curiosity in bitcoin was exploding within the first half of 2011 and it had rallied 8,000% from $0.30 to over $24 in the course of the first six months of the 12 months.
Exchanges like MtGox and BitcoinMarket had been operational, and upstarts like Britcoin, Bitcoin Brazil, VirWoX, and Bitomat additionally launched.
Nonetheless, Epstein’s involvement with intelligence companies just like the CIA can also be a matter of public hypothesis.
