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  1. #EpsteinFiles: not only did Jeffrey #Epstein fund the entire bitcoin development team at #MIT Media Lab from 2015-????, he took a special interest in Madars Virza, co-founder of the "privacy coin" ZCash (#ZEC).

    #ZCash “fixes” the main issue with bitcoin, at least for people like Jeffrey Epstein. Zcash transactions are encrypted / private and therefore nothing about them is publicly visible in a block explorer¹ (and therefore any suspicious large transactions would not even be noticed).

    ZCash, (unlike #Monero / #XMR, its prime competitor in the “privacy coin” space), is not an open source project. It’s privatized secret money created by a corporation. That corporation (Electric Coin Co.) also just so happens to have been funded by DCG, the crypto VC fund Larry Summers sat on the board of for 7 years after being introduced to Brock Pierce by Jeffrey Epstein. ZCash is actually one of #DCG’s flagship investments 🤔

    Hard not to think that Epstein wasn’t meeting with #MadarsVirza to make a few “feature requests” that would make #ZCash more useful for people like Jeffrey #Epstein.

    (it’s also worth at least mentioning that all of the cryptoverse’s biggest cretins like the #Winklevoss twins, Naval, Emperor Shillbertine, etc. started pushing ZCash HARD a month or two ago as the “true” bitcoin, but that’s probably a subject for a separate post)

    ¹ though a lot of people think the transactions are visible to #ElectricCoinCo via a backdoor, which is v. different from Monero. i haven't done the work to have an opinion on whether that's true or not, but a lot of bros call ZCash some variant of "CIAcoin"

    #crypto #medialab #privacy #EpsteinFiles #madars #Virza #blockchain #LarrySummers #uspol #BarrySilbert #cryptocurrency #JeffreyEpstein

  2. Genesis Files Suits Against DCG to Recover Billions Worth of Allegedly Fraudulent Transfers - Crypto lender Genesis and its subsidiaries filed two lawsuits against its parent company,... - coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/20 #barrysilbert #lawsuits #genesis #policy #news #usa #dcg

  3. Judge Rules Against Most of DCG’s Motion to Dismiss NYAG’s Civil Securities Fraud Suit - A New York judge ruled Friday that the majority of New York Attorney General Letitia Jame... - coindesk.com/policy/2025/04/11 #letitiajames #barrysilbert #policy #dcg

  4. Report: DCG, Barry Silbert Seek Dismissal of NYAG Lawsuit, Citing ‘Baseless Innuendo’ and Integrity in Operations - Digital Currency Group (DCG) has submitted a request to the court to drop the lega... - news.bitcoin.com/report-dcg-ba #digitalcurrencygroup #cryptocurrency #barrysilbert #letitiajames #legalcrypto #crypto #news #nyag #dcg