MIT Students' Bitcoin Study Tied to Epstein's Secret Crypto Connections

In 2014, two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students conducted an experiment by giving $100 in bitcoins to undergraduates. This marked a landmark study on how early users adopt new digital currencies.

One of the students, Jeremy Rubin, had corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein for years while working on his bitcoin project. Epstein was secretly spending millions to ingratiate himself in scientific circles during this time.

Epstein's connections with figures in the digital currency world spanned the political spectrum. The extent and nature of these relationships are not clear from available information.