Bottomline: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-hijacking-of-bitcoin/

"This is not Big Short 2.0.

This is Big Short 2.0 on steroids, pre-planned, and run by the same network that already owns the outcome.

They created the crisis (crippled on-chain Bitcoin), printed the fake money to pump it (Tether), positioned themselves to own the "solution" (Blockstream, Cantor, USAT), wrote the laws that protect their scam (GENIUS, CLARITY), and are now preparing to step in as the saviors when the bubble they inflated finally pops. They walk away with fees, stakes, revolving-door jobs, and permanent control over programmable money. We get every transaction tracked, every dollar programmable, and the last remnants of financial freedom erased under the banner of "innovation" and "stability."

This is not incompetence. This is conquest.

What We Should Do

The Epstein files are public. The University of Texas study is published. The CFTC fines are on record. The emails are in black and white.

Shut down the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve immediately. It is built on fraud and serves as a distraction.

Kill the CLARITY Act before it cements the control grid.

Repeal the GENIUS Act and slam the backdoor shut on programmable dollars.

Expose every connection. Name every name. Refuse to let policy be written on top of Epstein's shadow.

Support real alternatives: privacy coins, sound money protocols, anything that keeps control in individual hands instead of this parasitic elite network.

Bitcoin was born to set us free. The files prove it was captured. The time to take it back is now."

https://needtoknow.news/2026/02/aaron-day-on-bitcoin-and-stable-coins-the-creature-from-epstein-island/
"Aaron Day is compiling a source for massive data drops that include the Epstein files, the Panama Papers and more so that researchers may investigate the crimes of the powerful in order to change people's view of politics, cryptocurrency and surveillance.

Day describes how the original vision of Bitcoin that was supposed to operate peer-to-peer was deliberately "hijacked," as Bitcoin is now pushed as "digital gold," a scarce asset for Wall Street, with slow and expensive transactions for everyday use. He explained that the change came after the Bitcoin Foundation collapsed, and Epstein's money flowed through MIT to pay the core developers who favored the small-block path. Epstein invested in Blockstream, a company started by those same developers. 

Brock Pierce, who co-founded Tether, brokered Epstein's Coinbase investment, and had an extensive relationship with him. Tether then played a crucial role in inflating Bitcoin's price; a study suggests new, unbacked Tether, minted after price drops, accounted for roughly 50% of the 2017 bull run. The CFTC later fined Tether $41 million for lying about its reserves. Due to Epstein's manipulations in digital currency that can be programmed and controlled, Day called it 'The Creature From Epstein Island.'

Day also exposed Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, Epstein's next-door neighbor, who is poised to make a fortune on stable coins.