An overlooked detail in the Epstein case: During the period in 2015 when the Bitcoin Foundation was running out of funds and Bitcoin core developers were temporarily unpaid, part of the funding that kept the MIT Media Lab's digital currency project operational actually came from approximately $850,000 donated by Epstein to MIT. These funds were used to support the work of core developers like Gavin Andresen and Wladimir van der Laan. The documents also include numerous emails showing Epstein repeatedly convening figures from finance and politics such as Brock Pierce and Larry Summers at his Manhattan mansion to discuss Bitcoin's investment prospects, regulatory risks, and future positioning. While existing materials do not provide evidence that he directly intervened in the technical roadmap or consensus rules of Bitcoin, these revealed flows of funds and private meetings demonstrate that, even before Bitcoin was fully "legalized" by the mainstream, powerful capital had quietly entered and sought to influence resource allocation and discourse. Bitcoin has never grown in a vacuum; rather, it has been under the watch and manipulation of various powers, capital, and gray figures—being exploited on one hand, yet also avoiding complete control by any single party thanks to its decentralized structure.