BlockBeats News, February 2nd: Crypto journalist Kyle Torpey revealed that in recently exposed Epstein documents, in August 2018, Epstein told Bitcoin developer Jeremy Rubin that he had moral concerns about manipulating cryptocurrency prices. Epstein refused the proposed transaction and expressed a greater willingness to support other things but could not publicly acknowledge the moral issue.
Furthermore, the newly disclosed documents also include an interesting email from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to investors. In February 2016, Armstrong informed investors in an email that Coinbase was working behind the scenes to ensure that the network was not being held back by “early idealists” and anticipated a hard fork to a 2MB block size in the next month or two. However, this hard fork never occurred, with the last attempt being abandoned in the fall of 2017 due to being seen as corporate-driven and lacking community support.
