I think one reason for the lack of support for the samourai team is because a lot of people don't like them. From what I have heard, the samourai team were assholes and they were drawing a lot of unnecessary attention to themselves. They were marketing their service as a way to navigate around government sanctions. I'm not saying they deserve what happened to them by any means. They did not. But you need to be smarter than that. This world isn't free and the freedoms we were taught that America stood for is simply a lie. The government made an example out of them and showed the world that this isn't about justice at all. It's about keeping people afraid and in line. I also think bitcoiner actions are more aligned with their beliefs than shitcoiners. Many bitcoiners are true anarchists who know that the government and all their courts are just smoke and mirrors. Shitcoiners need the government to play nice with them. Bitcoiners do not. Why would an anarchist ever try to gain freedom through a court that he doesn't perceive to be legitimate? Why would an anarchist pay a lawyer to try and free someone when he doesn't recognize their authority at all? The truth is that there is no real justice in these courts. Samourai had no speedy trial. They didn't have any clear violations of the law. They didn't actually custody any of the money. They were arrested before the prosecutors even finished building a case against them. Trying to free them by bending the knee and engaging in their bullshit lawyer spectacles is not how you gain freedom. The founding fathers didn't gain their freedom by arguing for it in rigged British courts. Freedom is not won that way. And the system is rigged. We know this. What happened to Ross Ulbricht is proof of that. What is happening with the Epstein files is proof of that. The prison sentence that Larken Rose received is proof of that. The prison sentence that Irwin Schiff received is proof of that. How much more evidence do people need before they stop wasting their time on these courts? This trial is not about justice or convicting criminals. It's about punishing people who are undermining the power of the government and the trials are just a show intended to maintain a pretense of fairness. That is the sole reason why courts exist. It's not about justice but making you think there is justice and that you need government to ensure justice prevails. The government can and does make examples out of the loud people who bring a lot of attention to themselves. The people trying to disrupt the system. Again, not saying they deserve what happened but asking me to pay lawyers to play a silly game of arguing about trivialities like what constitutes custody is not a good use of time or money. Is code speech? Is it a weapon? Is bitcoin protected under the first or second amendment? Wtf are these retarded arguments? Mental gymnastics is not how you become free. Americans don't know what it means to be American or free anymore. Finally, and most importantly, you can't beat the courts because it is tilted in their favor. The judge literally cannot be impartial when the state pays his salary. This fact alone makes everything that the court does unjust. And a jury of your peers who were coerced into being a jury is not justice either. A jury can't ensure justice when their basic human rights are being violated through coercive force. A jury that doesn't want to be in the court is not who I want to determine the fate of my freedom. Freedom isn't won this way. It never was and it never will be. This is just my best guess as to why bitcoiners are different. You may disagree with me, but I don't think any massive changes will be made through fraudulent kangaroo courts. And I have a hunch that after covering all this, you probably think the same. Should I waste my money on a lost cause? I don't think so. You are one of the few people on nostr that I consistently zap. It's because I appreciate your work and find it very valuable to keep up to date with the crimes that are being committed by this "justice system." But I sadly don't think any of this will change anything and I believe it is a mistake to think that paying more money to lawyers is what will free samourai. This whole case was fucked from the beginning and there is nothing the lawyers could do to change that except just waste more time while the samouai team rots in jail. They have already been locked up for far too long and the damage has already been done. The courts succeeded in what they intended to do all along: scare developers.