Epstein Emails Reference Bitcoin Meeting With Brock Pierce at Manhattan Mansion
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In brief Emails released from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate reference Tether co-founder Brock Pierce. Epstein was asked about a meeting with Pierce at his Manhattan mansion, they show. Pierce spoke to Larry Summers about Bitcoin, an unpublished article states. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce spoke about Bitcoin with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, according to a series of emails from the disgraced financier’s estate. The exchange, which took place after Epstein’s conviction as a sex offender in 2008, was going to be referenced in an article for New York Magazine in 2015, but the outlet appears to have never published the story that highlighted several of Epstein’s high-profile guests. During the meeting, Pierce, who co-founded stablecoin issuer Tether, described himself to Summers as “the most active investor in Bitcoin,” according to a version of the article included in the emails, which were released by U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday. Summers, a former Harvard University president, saw “opportunities” with Bitcoin but was concerned about damage to his reputation if he lost his funds, the article states. “I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity,” Summers said, according to the article, in response to an update from Pierce on “rapid Bitcoin price swings.” The interaction in the article, which spans a handful of paragraphs, ends with Pierce saying that “you’re going to have some low-quality characters playing early in the space.” Pierce’s connection to Epstein has been documented before, including a 2011 visit to the Virgin Islands, where Pierce attended a scientific conference hosted by Epstein called Mindshift. A spokesperson for Pierce told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 that “the few communications that Mr. Pierce had with Epstein related to…
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