Notes from day 15 of the Tornado Cash trial: When I walked in this morning, the jury had just sent a note to the judge asking if Storm had a legal obligation to respond to the law enforcement agencies that had requested his help in retrieving funds. - After some discussion with the prosecution and defense, Judge Failla wrote a note to the jury asking them to focus only on the evidence admitted in the trial, none of which touched on whether or not he was required to respond to law enforcement. - Around 1:00 PM EST, the jury requested specific text messages/chats. - Just now, some members of the jury shared they had some scheduling issues for the rest of the week. - One juror has a 90th birthday party for her mother tomorrow. She initially wanted to take the entire day off tomorrow. - Judge Failla spoke with the jurors, and they’ve agreed to come in tomorrow from 8:30 AM EST to 12:30 PM EST. - The jurors have also agreed to stay until at least 4:00 PM EST this evening, maybe later. - After speaking with the jurors just moments ago, Judge Failla said “I have no sense we’re getting a verdict from them this afternoon.”

British MPs are purchasing commercial VPNs - and billing taxpayers for them - to circumvent the Online Safety Act, which censors online content.

Bitcoin ATMs in Wisconsin may soon be money transmitters. The push for more KYC continues.

At day 14 of the Tornado Cash trial, and just stepped out for lunch. The jury is still deliberating, which may be a good thing, according to Zack Shapiro.

For those looking to understand the charges in #TornadoCash case better as well as what’s at stake for #privacy-preserving tech, please check out my interview with Amanda Tuminelli, Executive Director of the DeFi Education Fund. Amanda is also an expert on 18 U.S. Code § 1960, the U.S. federal law that prohibits the operation of unlicensed money transmitting businesses. (And she’s a boss.)

🚨 NEW: The Samourai developers - Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill - have both pled guilty to count 2 of their indictment, the conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter business charge. More details in the video below:

“We will prevent labeling Bitcoin and any kind of privacy payment and communication tools as something negative… We need to have a solution in which privacy is not something which is bad. It’s actually [our] main right and this right needs to be protected.” @Lyudmyla Kozlovska

The defense rests in the Tornado Cash trial, and the Samourai devs change their plea from “not guilty” to “guilty.” My thoughts on both: