Truth Is the Battleground: Peter Todd on Ukraine, Information Warfare, and the Epstein Files

Mar 3, 2026

Peter Todd, founder of OpenTimestamps and longtime Bitcoin contributor, joins from Kyiv where he supports fundraising, logistics, and cyber-resilience. He discusses cryptographic timestamping to prove digital evidence, how truthful leaks can be turned into information warfare, and the intersection of Bitcoin, geopolitical risk, and verified aid efforts in Ukraine.

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Current Bitcoin Drops Likely Leverage Not Structural Shift

Recent Bitcoin drawdowns likely reflect leverage flushing rather than structural change.
Peter Todd, a long-time Bitcoin participant, points out larger historical drawdowns and that current drops are smaller percentage-wise.

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War Might Reinforce Bitcoin's Long Term Role

Geopolitical upheaval can be positive for regime change and potentially good for Bitcoin long term.
Peter Todd suggests an Iran conflict could topple a bad regime and reinforce demand for Bitcoin as a hedge.

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Proximity Makes Disinformation Less Effective

Information warfare works differently depending on physical proximity to conflict.
Peter Todd notes Russian disinformation struggles inside Ukraine because citizens directly witness fighting and know soldiers personally.

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In this special episode of Lead-Lag Live, I sit down with Peter Todd, Founder of OpenTimestamps, for a conversation that goes far beyond Bitcoin volatility or market narratives.

Peter joins us directly from Kyiv, where he has been working on the ground to support Ukrainian units through targeted fundraising efforts including delivering repaired and donated 4x4 vehicles to frontline teams and supporting interceptor drone initiatives designed to stop attacks on civilian infrastructure.

But this discussion also touches on something larger. As debates over the Epstein files dominate online discourse, Peter explains how even truthful information can be used as a form of informational warfare by diverting attention away from conflicts that are unfolding in real time. In a world where deepfakes, AI generated media, and manufactured receipts can spread within minutes, tools like OpenTimestamps are being used to prove that digital evidence existed in the past and has not been recently modified.

From Bitcoin’s role in enabling anonymous charitable donations to the use of cryptographic timestamping to document events in wartime, this episode explores how technology, trust, and truth intersect in an increasingly uncertain geopolitical environment and how viewers can directly support verified aid efforts in Ukraine through organizations working on interceptor drones and frontline logistics.

In this episode:
– Why Bitcoin drawdowns may be less important than geopolitical risk
– How truthful information can still be weaponized
– Why the Epstein debate may be crowding out more urgent realities
– How OpenTimestamps helps verify digital evidence
– How viewers can directly support Ukrainian aid efforts

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