Crypto: Crypto Figures Address Connections Mentioned In Latest Epstein File...

Some crypto executives are explaining the nature of the business relationships with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Alongside many of the world’s rich and powerful, some prominent leaders in the crypto industry are explaining their connections, however tenuous, with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released millions of new files on Saturday, among which appeared the names of several prominent crypto figures.

The connections vary from passing mentions to possible investments and business ties with the disgraced former financier who was found dead in his prison cell in August 2019.

With public speculation mounting over the files’ contents and calls for prosecution, individuals named in the documents have begun addressing their links to Epstein, seeking to distance themselves from him. Others have not yet made public statements.

Inclusion in the files does not imply guilt or wrongdoing.

Peter Thiel, co-founder of payments platform PayPal and a major crypto investor, wrote an op-ed for the Financial Times in 2025, stating that the second term of US President Donald Trump would shed light on the Epstein files.

Invoking the Greek term “apokalypsis,” meaning “to bring into the light,” Thiel said that most Americans “mistrusted the official story that he died by suicide.” He argued that the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DICS), a conspiratorial term coined by Eric Weinstein, the managing director of Thiel Capital, “had lost total control of the narrative.”

Thiel had an extensive correspondence with Epstein, discussing world politics and Thiel’s lawsuit with Gawker and planning meetups. Epstein invested $40 million in Thiel’s Valar Ventures and even invited him to visit his notorious island in the Caribbean.

Despite this extended correspondence, Thiel representatives have told The New York Times that he never visited Epstein’s island.

Source: CoinTelegraph