Luke Dashjr, a longtime $BTC
Bitcoin developer and early contributor to Blockstream, has called on Blockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back to resign from his positions after newly released files connected convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to figures across the cryptocurrency industry.
“These recent revelations about Adam and Epstein Island help shed light on some of Adam’s hostility toward me and his recent pro-spam gaslighting, but I never knew how bad and how deep the corruption went,” Dashjr said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Dashjr referred to a previous dispute regarding what he claimed was an earlier assurance that he would be recognized as a Blockstream co-founder, and treated equally with others involved at the company’s founding.
Dashjr said that Back “should consider resigning from all positions of authority and apologize to all the developers, investors, and Bitcoiners he’s misled along the way.”
His comments followed the release of a new tranche of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice related to Epstein last Friday. The millions of newly released files include extensive references to cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and leading industry figures. According to a tally of mentions in the documents, Tether co-founder Brock Pierce appears 1,801 times, Bitcoin 1,522 times, Coinbase 266 times, and Adam Back 19 times.