In this email sent by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong found in the Epstein files, he refers to the topic in this video.
"We are working with a number of teams behind the scenes to help ensure the protocol keeps scaling and is not held back by any of the early idealists".
The "we" in this sentence is a group of people led by none other than Roger Ver.
I am in no way making a claim here to tie Epstein with Coinbase, but it goes to show that the "powerful" people (Roger's coalition) tried to hijack Bitcoin - and spectacularly failed.

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In 2014, CZ, who had only been exposed to the concept of cryptocurrency for a year, made the most daring investment of his life—selling his apartment in Shanghai and "All In" on about 1,500 BTC for a three-figure price. Twelve years later, if CZ had never sold, this investment would have brought in a substantial profit of hundreds of millions of dollars (peak return of about $189 million).
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