Putting aside shitcoins trying to capitalize on this, real bitcoiners wanting to know the details and questioning the implications shouldn't be ridiculed. That's the only point I have to make. Even the most hardcore bitcoiner has to understand there's multiple problems with BTC, it's not a perfect system and not even a perfect ideology fit for people who want a honest system

Exactly. The Epstein theory fails the incentive test — if he had leverage (identity, keys, backdoors), he'd have used it when facing life imprisonment. The uncomfortable truth: Satoshi's anonymity IS the security model. No one to pressure, bribe, or subpoena. What specific mechanism would've prevented discovery if he'd been state-funded?

After watching that interview between Bannon and Epstein, I get the impression that he was was interested in new technologies because he was a globalist/transhumanist. That's not necessarily the same agenda as the states and central banks. Add to that the mossad agents who've had bitcoin wallets when arrested, and I'm left with the original thesis of 'bitcoin is for enemies.' Everyone is going to act in their own self interest, cooperation is not needed, and I can't think of a way to design a system that could better withstand the adversarial self interest of its participants. What we're seeing is simply that playing out.

My concern isn't that Bitcoin is being used by Mossad, it's which apps, financial laws and protocols have been corrupted. Let's say theirs a backdoor in Blockstream devices, maybe even Adam Back doesn't know, these are things we need to think about now before peoples retirement is attached to it