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Afi Koman's avatar

I love a juicy conspiracy story and this hits all the right notes. It’s a more plausible explanation for the Epstein wealth, and influence. The premise that Epstein made his money by blackmailing masters of the universe was always BS. Any one of them would have had him killed way before his supposed suicide. And the claim that rich men were paying him to procur underage women, also falls flat. You don’t become a billionaire by being a pimp. Sex for sale is a major German, and Dutch industry, why bother flying into the Caribbean to a US Island. Yes, a crypto based money laundering or tax evasion service makes the most sense.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

well, we know where at least a decent amount of his non-crypto money came from... Setting up tax avoidance GRATs was definitely part of it: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/crypto-epstein#footnote-10-168971971

he got paid $160 million by Leon Black (maybe to set up a GRAT, maybe because of blackmail, TBD)

but his work for adnan khashoggi clearly put him in a great place to engage in all kinds of financial shenanigans no one has yet uncovered, and it feels highly plausible to me that crypto could have been a part of that (and even epstein himself wasn't using crypto, judging from the blockchain data his arrest seems to have had some impact on the overall money laundering industry)

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Afi Koman's avatar

I love this statement. So much truth in so few words. Nice job!

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Anti-semitism admittedly the end stage of pretty much all unhinged conspiracy theories.

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BigOinSeattle's avatar

Epstein was run by some other entity. His NYC and Florida houses were wired for video. The idea that Maxwell acted as a pimp for Epstein alone is even more ludicrous

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Joanna's avatar

Would love to hear your thoughts on the Nikolai Mushegian death too, and if you think it's related. I am not smart enough to fully understand the relevant info, but I am interested if it is related in anyway.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

Mushegian apparently had a history of mental illness and his death is pretty consistent with an attack of extreme paranoia that would drive someone to do something like try to swim away in the ocean (see also: that girl who was found dead in an L.A. water tower). his family thinks that's what happened.

personally having lived through my own experience of getting hacked by crypto criminals (link below if you're curious) i've always wondered if he had some kind of security breach w/his devices that drove him over the edge, because that shit will drive you completely nuts.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-bros-hack-back

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Joanna's avatar

Ah ok, that makes sense. Thank you so much. It’s hard when you are researching without the fundamentals to know when things are outlandish and when they are worth paying attention to, so I appreciate your input. I can imagine getting hacked would send anyone over the end. I will definitely have a read of your experience.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

i'll also throw out there though that there were at least 2 or 3 other bros who died at the same time as mushegian that i find extremely suspicious. i talked about mushegian and the others here.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-even-more-than-more-than-seven

tl;dr i think the FTXplosion left a lot of people in a bad place w/r/t their financial relationship with organized crime groups.

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Rocket's avatar

Wow... great theory and research! I think it's even bigger than this though. I think it rolls up to BB in Israel been pulling strings, tinkering here and there. I think the Epst engine was created by BB to blackmail the world, and so he is. The lambs of the west have been silenced...and tested during Covid What shock so many lambs, sleep walked into the grievance culture, silencing each other like the little red coats from not so long ago. - article for another day. They crypto laundry....what if he's still alive and sucking other suicided billionaires into a breakaway society....like those 3 billionaires that 'supposedly' died in a submarine in 2023? Really? 3 all at once were that stupid? Curios about their crypto accounts and potential connection to all of this?

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Rocket's avatar

I assume somewhere in there would be Epst's good and close neighbor of many years Lutnick and and the BB regime.

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Glorfindel's avatar

Damn Cryptadamus...you're clever. Your final point of Donald & Jeffrey possibly operating a washing machine for Russian money is inspired. Any theories on why Autumn Radtke was launched out a window? Definitely seems to be something that happens to you when you run afoul of Russian Mobsters.

On another topic, Trump stuffing crypto down the throats of the banking system seems like a wonderful new chapter in the Cryptocalypse Chronicles.

https://www.theblock.co/post/365594/trump-crypto-debanking-penalties

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

i don't have any theories about radtke. some people have postulated that maybe she owed money to unpleasant people in the aftermath of the mt. gox hack, but that happened 3 years before her defenestration so i'm sceptical of that explanation.

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Glorfindel's avatar

As a follow-up, Google "AI" which is often wrong, informs me that Jan Marsalek of Wirecard fame was connected to folks in Epstein's orbit.

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

unsurprising. fwiw wirecard basically evolved into crypto. there are many of the same players and the chart of tether's market cap against wirecard's market cap is... illuminating: https://x.com/Cryptadamist/status/1828514973812670589

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Glorfindel's avatar

This Crypto is really a cesspool.

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Rocket's avatar

Epst was a BB op out o Israel, the centralized honeypot used to blackmail and run/euthanize our country. BB has the files and will not allow baby hughy (US) to see them as we have raised the silence of the lambs.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell's avatar

So what is quite obvious in the post epstein Epoch, others, rather dramatic and sharp increases in stable coin numbers right and instead of increasing smoothly, they jump rather dramatically.

Any idea what that’s about?

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Michel de Cryptadamus's avatar

i put a possible scenario in the piece, which is that people who were moving money (real money, not crypto) with jeffrey epstein's help suddenly had to move that money another way so they started moving it with tether.

but there's plenty of other scenarios... it could have been epstein's money that started moving, for instance.

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Rocket's avatar

Tied to war, other mysterious exits of billionaires, pelosies investment accounts, planning how they'll suicide her cousin luigi where he later shows up with a new face in some other part o the world, having a cocktail on another private beach with the 3 billionaires that supposedly died in the submarine. It'd make for an interesting season 4 of the White Lotus.

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Gordon Lynn's avatar

Crypto a giant ponzi scheme if it’s not returned the right amount of money then you’re likely to be sleeping with the fishes

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