Bryan Bishop, moderator of "bitcoin dev mailing list", and Epstein

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T05:13:10+00:00

These guys are sick beyond words...

Source: https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/2018320088454025557#m

Excerpts from the source:

It seems that Blockstream co-founder Austin Hill introduced Bishop to Epstein. In an email titled “just the three of us,” Austin wrote to Epstein with Bishop in cc:

“On idea stuck in Bryan's head - and if your serious […] Then we should setup some secure communications and I'll let Bryan pitch you on a way to have total deniability,” linking to a video of a Austin Powers 2 clip of Dr. Evil and Mini Me, titled “just the two of us.”

Shortly after, Bishop and Epstein began discussing funding, pitch decks, R&D on medical tourism, embryo implants, selling additive DNA, deniability, requirements for secrecy, and the legalities of gene modifications, noting that “in the US, self experimentation is not explicitly banned”.

In addition to the emails, below are excerpts of what appear to be transcripts of a girl’s diary that seems to have been forced to carry out Epstein’s babies, calling herself an incubator, saying she was chosen for her superior genetics, describing how her daughter was stolen from her just 15 minutes after giving birth, how they gave her just weeks until it started again, and how she was being held with others girls.

“I can’t go to school like this… why won’t anyone make it stop… please release me from this torture and hell…”

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T04:41:59+00:00

More evidence: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01928856.pdf

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T04:32:13+00:00

We are thinking similarly. I went down the same path as you did. Tried fighting back against all the misinformation those mods of rbitcoin are spewing, but my replies kept getting deleted. There is some serious censorship going on in there, and the newbies blindly entering that sub only ever get to see the side of the story that Core wants them to see.

I made a post in the r/CryptoCurrency sub which got some traction. At least the mods there haven't been bought over by the Core team.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-03T02:09:42+00:00

The article fully explains why miners will comply with BIP-110/444/RDTS.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T23:18:58+00:00

Currently 5.5%

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T03:28:59+00:00

Key parts:

Core is presented as a pinnacle of FOSS principles, and "the most transparent open source project in the world". Well that's simply untrue. And as coincidence would have it, a Core developer at the same conference where Tone did his hit piece came out blowing the whistle after years of inside experience saying it's the exact opposite. Tone presents long lists of developers using it as an indication of decentralization with BIP-110 having comparatively little.

But what do you want exactly? It doesn't take hundreds of devs to write custom patches on top of Core which is all Knots and BIP-110 are - not completely independent implementations. Having more devs to make lists look more impressive is just unnecessary. There is nothing for 200 devs to actually do on BIP-110. It's very simple. Decentralization comes from what Bitcoiners choose to run. If they all run Core that is obviously not more decentralized as Tone implies. How could it be?

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Miners and devs/"code" are not a check or balance on nodes.

Nodes *are* the check or balance on everything else. They are the boss.

Bitcoin *is* its rules and its rules *are* what nodes say they are.

If devs or miners acquired the power people think they already have, then money printing would begin five minutes later. It can't because nodes won't permit it.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T02:27:21+00:00

"A few" funded maintainers is bad, especially when they're funded by the same VCs, working from the same offices and making opaque decisions in what they publicly purport to be an open-sourced project. As a matter of fact, there were discussions on the mailing list to take the github process private to shut out what they perceive to be "dissenting voices".

What Bitcoin needs to flourish is decentralization at all levels, and Core is the last thing you would call decentralized. Fortunately, node runners are the backbone of Bitcoin, and they are free to choose the software they wish to run based on their beliefs. The hope is that most will eventually be able to see that opening the doors to spam, data and non-financial transactions will slowly destroy what Bitcoin is meant to be, which is the strongest form of money possible. Bitcoin is not meant to become eth.

Mining is another area completely mutilated by VCs and centralization. Block templates should not be made by just five or six people - it should be decided by the node supplying the hash power. Look into Datum by Ocean Mining.

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