🚨 NEW: DONALD TRUMP ON PARDONING SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPER KEONNE RODRIGUEZ: "I've heard about it, I'll look at it, you think he should be pardoned? Rodriguez, we'll look at that Pam, we'll take a look" Full Clip👇 https://www.youtube.com/live/EfAbtXzo8Zk?t=10697s

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🚨NEW: WILLIAM HILL SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON, THREE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE People should be deterred from doing what the Samourai Wallet developers did, Judge Cote stated in court. Full story 👇

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William Hill Sentenced To Four Years In Prison

People should be deterred from doing what the Samourai Wallet developers did, Judge Cote stated in court.

🚨JUST IN: Samourai Wallet developer William Hill sentenced to 4 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release

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🚨KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON, $250,000 FINE, 3 YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE The Samourai Wallet developer will surrender to custody on December 19th. Rodriguez has the option to appeal, Judge Cote states. Full story👇

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Keonne Rodriguez Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison, $250,000 Fine

Sentenced after pleading guilty in July, the Samourai Wallet developer will surrender to law enforcement custody on December 19th.

"The judge did not seem particularly sympathetic to the financial privacy argument." Key updates from Keonne's sentencing 👇 Earlier this year, Rodriguez and Samourai Wallet cocreator William Hill plead guilty to conspiracy to violate money transmission licensing requirements for building a non-custodial Bitcoin privacy wallet. Rodriguez doesn't identify the problem Samourai sought to solve, judge Cote said at the sentencing hearing. “There is no acknowledgement [by Rordiguez] of the criminal world for whom digital currency is a gift … There seems to be no recognition of the human suffering that was facilitated by the defendant.” Rodriguez pled guilty to a subsection of money transmitter licensing law criminalizing the knowing transmission of illicit proceeds. The Defense requested a sentence of one year and one day. A pre-sentencing recommendation from probation authorities recommended 42 months. The subsection applied to Roriguez is the same subsection that prosecutors used to convict Tornado Cash cocreator Roman Storm this August. At the time, many scholars argued that the subsection was misapplied due to a lack of licensing requirements for non-custodial services. Earlier this year, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti stated that the DOJ would no longer bring prosecutions against non-custodial developers under the subsection applied to Rodriguez, Hill and Storm. The defense highlighted ambiguities in the law itself, citing confusion around whether licensing and regulatory requirements, such as the Bank Secrecy Act, applied to non-custodial services. It also highlighted the need for services like Samourai Wallet to conceal otherwise public funds to protect Bitcoin users from extortion and kidnappings. In addition to the 5 year sentence and $250,000 fine, Rodriguez will be on supervised release for 3 years. 20% of his gross income will be garnished after release to pay the fine, as will $25 a month or up to 50% of any income earned in Federal prison work programs.

🚨 KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS, $250,000 FINE

Today and tomorrow we are live at the sentencing of Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill of Samourai Wallet ⬇️

🚨NEW: US GOVERNMENT SEEKS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPERS "I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court. Full story👇

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"I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court.

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🚨 NEW: US WANTS TO KEEP 127,000 BTC IN LARGEST ASSET FORFEITURE IN HISTORY The lack of advocacy for the funds to be returned to victims displays the perverse incentives birthed by the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Full story👇

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🚨NEW: KYC ALL THE THINGS: IS MARKET STRUCTURE BLOWING UP? A leaked proposal by Senate Democrats would give Treasury sweeping powers to ban non-custodial services, establishing authority over what code can be deployed, and what code can't. Full story👇

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💥NEW: THE US TREASURY WON'T TELL US HOW MUCH BITCOIN IT OWNS The Freedom of Information Act does not require agencies to answer to fishing expeditions, IRS tells The Rage.

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🚨NEW: ROMAN STORM FILES MOTION FOR ACQUITTAL ON ALL COUNTS The Government failed to provide sufficient evidence of illegal conduct and would criminalize the publication of decentralized software in violation of the first amendment. Full story👇

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