Every time I really need a tx to confirm it does not do the confirming

who is buying all the bitcoin when nobody's moving any bitcoin, anon

If you still have an X account, come join us on spaces in 5 minutes to discuss what's happening in Tornado Cash. If you can't, here’s everything you need to know. Storm is charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate sanctions, as well as operating an unlicensed money transmitting business (MTB), facing more than 40 years in prison for developing software. Early discussions focused on whether a non-custodial software tool like Tornado Cash can qualify as an MTB, as it never held control of funds; a prerequisite for qualifying as an MTB. But Storm will not be allowed to use these interpretations of MTB law in his defense. "I really don't want to hear control issues, or there must be fees and 'for profit'," the judge told the defense last week. These issues "are not going to show up in this trial, because they are not." Since the indictment, the Government has announced that it is no longer pursuing that Tornado Cash violated federal registration violations as an alleged MTB – meaning that it is no longer pursuing the theory that Tornado Cash is a financial institution. Neither Storm, nor the defense, will be allowed to mention KYC or AML. And what about the First Amendment? Isn’t writing code protected speech? The judge doesn’t seem to think so. Free speech and privacy rights aren’t going to be discussed. Additionally, all witnesses are banned from using the words legal, illegal, legitimate, and illegitimate. That includes any testimony to the general legality of uses for Tornado Cash, unless they are brought up to refute the prosecution’s evidence. The Government is closing in on the future of privacy, and defending it will be a walk on a tightrope. Link to join 👇 Space will be recorded and streamed on your fav channel @TFTC @Marty Bent if everything works out ✌️ https://x.com/i/spaces/1djGXVPbkVVxZ

Mullvad. Signal. Proton. Tor. In the trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the Government is stretching the interpretations of anti-money laundering laws to unprecedented scales. It's theory turns basic features of technology, such as websites, user interfaces and fees paid to conduct transactions on a blockchain into criminal acts, as EFF wrote in their amicus brief. "Under such an expansive reading of both IEEPA’s text and criminal liability more broadly, software developers would be at the mercy of the government’s vast and potentially unbounded discretion," chilling First Amendment activity and discouraging the development of privacy software. This case will decide the future of the Internet.

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The Trial of Roman Storm and Tornado Cash: The United States vs. Digital Privacy

Prosecutors are stretching the definition of money laundering in their fight against the future.

SDNY Misrepresented CoinDesk Reporter As Tornado Cash Developer In $600M Cash Out Message 👇

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SDNY Misrepresented CoinDesk Reporter As Tornado Cash Developer In $600M Cash Out Message

"Perhaps the indictment could have been clearer about the origin of the language," the Government states.

Looks like the Government did a major oopsie in what can only be called one of the most incriminating pieces of evidence against Roman Storm. In the indictment, the Government alleges that "[Pertsev] sent a message to STORM and SEMENOV through the Encrypted App, saying 'Heya, anyone around to chat about axie? Would like to ask a few general questions about how one goes about cashing out 600 mil.'" Except that message was never authored by Pertsev - it was written by a CoinDesk reporter and only forwarded by Pertsev to the other TC developers. The defense now demands an investigation of grand jury minutes as it claims that the Government may have misled the court. But the Government maintains that nothing about it’s depiction was misleading, because the message proves that Storm had knowledge of the hack, which is what the prosecution intends to offer it for – “regardless of who actually typed out that message.” As always, all filings discussed are linked in the article so you can form your own view of the situation Send zaps if you appreciate these stories - all money previously raised is going to the reporters on the ground. ya girls gotta eat⚡️

Having a hard time keeping up with everything going on in Samourai Wallet with the Tornado Cash trial coming up, and this case deserves much more attention than I am able to give it atm. Anyone here who: 1) has been following the case closely 2) knows how to use court listener 3) wants to contribute to The Rage? Specifically looking for someone who can go through the filings and highlight what's important, I can edit it into long form. will need some demonstration that you can discern the important info, e.g. via posts you made about it or similar. email me at lola@therage.co, I don't read DMs here 🧡

I know we hate the Xitter but if you guys still have an account over there, come join us for a spaces to discuss the first day of Roman Storm's trial and what's at stake. Next Monday, 7pm Eastern

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hey yeah uh where did the mempool go

GM fellow money launderers, wasn't someone building a Nostr marketplace somewhere where you could sell stuff? anyone have a link?

The new Samourai Wallet indictment truly is a phenomenally disingenuous piece of garbage 👇

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New Samourai Indictment Paints Anonymity As A Crime

New Samourai Wallet indictment paints the developers as having built the privacy service for the sole purpose of serving criminals.

Likely filed to reflect that the Government is no longer pursuing federal licensing violations – the new indictment removes all references to “unlicensed,” except one – SDNY seems to have taken the opportunity to make their indictment even more confusing to the judge. Entire paragraphs are moved around, language is changed, and most importantly, the new indictment seems to make zero distinction between Samourai Wallet the entity and Samourai Wallet the software. Take these two paragraphs for example, the first from the original indictment, and the second from the new one: "The cryptocurrency is 'cut down'", and leftover funds "are placed in a separate address and provided back to the Samourai user." "Samourai 'cut down' the cryptocurrency into correct sizes for a chosen pool," and "Samourai returned back to the user any leftover funds from this transaction that were too small to enter the Whirlpool by replacing them in a separate address.” So instead of correcting their technical inaccuracies, SDNY chose to double down on them. Imo, this means that prosecutors either somehow managed to get even more stupid over the past 1.5 years, or that SDNY is intentionally attempting to mislead the judge on how the Samourai Wallet software worked, making it look like the developers had more control over funds than they did in reality. They call this “justice,” my guys.

Newsletter: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is really One Big Surveillance Bill, and it's drastically underreported. OBBB increases biometric surveillance, extending it into *domestic transportation*, funding surveillance on highways and Amtrak routes near the border. OBBB will deploy autonomous surveillance towers that include remote video surveillance systems, expand the integration of real-time facial recognition and fingerprint analysis in law enforcement, and automate risk-scoring, turning Silicon Valley’s small-scale pilot programs into foundational infrastructure. Fittingly, the Trump administration also plans to extend facial recognition in Customs and Border Protection’s Traveler Verification Service via a newly proposed regulation, scanning the faces of *every* US American that travels via sea, land, or air – and is of course bypassing the public comment and review process to get it done. This will go well with the 9/11 era Real-ID, an identification program mandated for domestic air travel since May of this year, which is planned to effectively function as a digital identity. But hey, at least you’ll pay less taxes or something. Sign up for free or read all issues online 👇

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Rage Weekly: A Big Dumb Surveillance Bill

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Did Elon the dumb fucking moron break X again or is this just happening to me

Annual reminder that we are sending people to prison because the moon is in capricorn

Looks like there's interesting times ahead for Chainalysis again. Full story at the end of this post, which is well worth the read if you're interested in blockchain surveillance or, you know, justice or whatever. Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer convicted last year for money laundering in the Netherlands, has requested access to a Chainalysis Government license as well as insights into how Chainalysis clustering and labeling works to confirm evidence presented at his trial last year. According to the defense, addresses Pertsev has been provided with by the prosecution do not add up to what the Government claims when tracing funds manually on Etherscan. This is due to the prosecution’s use of Chainalysis software which clusters addresses together, a defense expert witness stated – a claim the prosecution denies. So far, the evidence of illicit funds flowing through Tornado Cash presented by the prosecution used to convict Pertsev last year does not appear to go beyond the citing of media reports. To prepare for Pertsev’s appeal, the defense wants to know what funds flowed where and when, noting that so far it has only been presented with spreadsheets that lack critical information, such as transaction hashes. “The defense argues that it's not enough for the government to simply point to some media articles to prove that these crimes actually happened,” says @Sjors Provoost, who attended the hearing this morning. The court will decide on Oct 2 whether it will grant the defense’s requests. Zap if u like this (and bc I am poor). ty ⚡ Full story:

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Pertsev Appeal: Defense Demands Insights Into Chainalysis Software

In a preliminary hearing on Tornado Cash developer Alex Perstev's appeal in The Netherlands, the defense is challenging evidence presented by the p...

You can now donate BTC to Roman Storm's defense via Geyser Fund. Donations will be matched by the Ethereum Foundation up to $750k USD. This trial will determine the future of software development. If you have a few extra coins, please make sure to make a donation 👇

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Anti-money laundering laws exist for one reason, and one reason only: to control the population and penalize those who dissent via extrajudicial processes. From NGOs organizing against the war on terror to supporters of disfavorable political movements, one wrong post on social media may make you lose access to any service that depends on your bank account. To employ such targeted exclusions – via sanctions or regular bank account closures – the global financial system *must* make sure that every transaction taking place is identifiable and attributable to an individual. AML does not stop crime, but functions as a system of narrative control that would become unworkable if the right to privacy in finance would exist. This weaponization of money has become the greatest tool in the West’s oppression of dissent, and we are all paying the price for it, being subjected to the dragnet surveillance it imposes. Read: Money as a tool for political censorship, the fifth article in our educational series together with @vexl 😎 🧡

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Money As A Tool For Political Censorship

This article is part of a six-part educational series in cooperation with the non-custodial, peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange Vexl. “This right inc...

Digital IDs cannot solve KYC fraud, ever. Users already sign up with data that is stolen from KYC databases, generated with AI, or sold to them by verified users. If a guy will sell me their verified Coinbase Pro account, you can bet your a** they’ll sell me the keys to their personal eyeball app. It does not matter how much “verification” you’ll attempt to slap onto this system, because the system *itself* does not work. KYC is a scam that *enables* financial crime at the cost of all of our privacy. Read: 31 Reasons Why AML Is Retarded in this week’s newsletter 👇

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Rage Weekly 022: 31 Reasons Why AML Is Retarded

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