Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement in Bitcoin was clearly driven by his need for a tool he could use for drug and sex trafficking. A newly released 69-page DEA memo, hidden in the Epstein files, details a five-year federal probe into Epstein for wire transfers linked to “illicit drug and/or prostitution activities” in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York. The investigation, launched in late 2010, tracked over $50 million in suspicious fiat transfers to accounts in Switzerland, France, the Cayman Islands, and New York. A few months later, in 2011, Epstein began researching alternatives, and he came across Bitcoin. He reached out to top Bitcoin leaders, held private meetings with them, and invested heavily in the sector, at one point controlling over 60% of its developers. The timing is not a coincidence.(Jacob King)