Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

From 2013, Epstein pitched Moscow on a "Sputnik for finance": urging FSB-linked Sergey Belyakov to let Russia invent new global money & leapfrog the West. 2/12

As Epstein courted Moscow, he built ties with Peter Thiel – first through mutual friends like Ian Osborne and Joi Ito discussing Bitcoin, then direct emails on crypto rules and funding for Blockstream. 4/12 www.febspot.com/explore/epst...

Mid-2010s: Epstein poured $40M into Thiel's Valar Ventures (called "co-owned" by Barak), ramped Blockstream stake 10x. 5/12 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_V... ​

Politics aligned: Both early Trump backers. Epstein hosted Thiel w/ Trump ally Tom Barrack & Russia's UN ambassador Churkin. 6/12

Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12

Enter Bannon: Post-White House, he fronted Farage partner Laure Ferrari's "Movement" to unite nationalists & block EU crypto regs. 8/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Epstein was Bannon's patron: Advised dodging scrutiny, gave transport/accommodation, smoothed Euro intros during UK hard-Brexit push. 9/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

2018: Bannon told Epstein he met Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg to topple May. Wolff emailed Epstein as Johnson intermediary. 10/12

Bannon boasted to Epstein: Advising FN, League, AfD, Orbán – "200 EP seats... shut down crypto legislation or anything." 11/12