Ok, but democracy is still failing here if laws are passed in the EU in such a scummy way.

I agree with their issue 21 though, Palantir’s culture is truly ugly and harmful. Just look at what the US has become in a few months with the implementation of some of their ideas. That country is imploding.

Counter-example: Epstein. But just continue to collect the checks for campaigning in favour of big brother Zuck, Thiel and their corporate and government friends. LoL

Basically, Epstein was the manager of Putin’s wealth.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01683874.pdf

https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13164-jeffrey-epstein-employed-a-private-hacker-new-documents-reveal#%3A~%3Atext=Who+was+Jeffrey+Epstein's+personal%2Cacquired+by+CrowdStrike+in+2017

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/informant-told-fbi-that-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker/

Epstein had some connection to REDACTED from MIT Media Lab and I think that’s Joi Ito.

Epstein tried repeatedly to set up a meeting to sell Putin on the idea of bitcoin in 2014.

That particular meeting fell apart, because Epstein realized it would look terrible to visit Putin so soon after the shootdown of MH17. But I wouldn’t be shocked if they did successfully meet sometime later.

Some people have joked that the only practical use case for bitcoin is to make financial crimes much easier. But what if that’s not a bug, but a feature? Perhaps the whole objective of bitcoin’s invention was to make financial crimes easier for Putin and the Russian mob.

Ito introduced Epstein to Jeremy Rubin (core bitcoin dev), which turned into Epstein directly funding Rubin. Search for “Jeremy Rubin” in the files and you’ll find checks to him, docs about the formation of “Deploy Capital LLC”, potentially backed with Peter Thiel who was trying to invest in Level One and Bitmain. Iozzo was involved in that stuff too: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01005773.pdf

So if that’s all true, is bitcoin just a bunch of Putin’s money? Nothing here is conclusive, but it isn’t so far fetched anymore, either.

But suddenly, this bizzare email exchange makes some sense. Epstein and Ito were panicking about the feds tracking down Putin’s wealth, because they knew following the money would lead right back to them.

Also, now we might know where Epstein got his mystery billions! Because they weren’t his billions, they were Putin’s.

Bitcoin was probably created for Putin to hide his money. There’s suspicious stuff about it in the Epstein files.

Orban’s Hungary is in favour, after all.

We are embracing authoritarianism everywhere. Democracies are dying.

Politicians are not ignorant of the risks; as the article mentions, they had several advisors, including scientists, who warned of the danger. If our leaders didn’t know it, they wouldn’t exclude themselves from the proposal.