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Jeffrey Epstein Invested in Bitcoin Firm Blockstream, Invited Founder Adam Back to Island
Convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein invited longtime Bitcoiner Adam Back and his co-founder Austin Hill to visit his island after investing in their Bitcoin technology company Blockstream in 2014, according to newly released files from the U.S. Department of Justice. Back is a British cryptographer best known for inventing Hashcash, a proof-of-work system that later became a core building block of Bitcoin. He's also co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, where he works on Bitcoin infrastructure, cryptography, and scaling technologies. The email exchange began with Epstein asking Hill on to call him on ... (full story)
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