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The Rage therage@primal.net 1 month ago
🚨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 storyπŸ‘‡
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US Government Seeks Maximum Sentence For Keonne Rodriguez And William Hill
"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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Globe99 globe99@nostrcheck.me 1 month ago
I'm curious, why did they plead guilty? Do they now consider that to be a mistake? Doesn't that moot the chance to challenge the equivalency of "unlicensed money transmitter" to "software author"?
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zap2buy 1 month ago
since when is having a different opinion about a law make u a criminal. This prosecution is basically crying to a judge about how the devs don’t philosophically agree with the law so they should go to jail? They didn’t commit a crime, they wrote code and talked shit. This is crazy!
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S!ayer 1 month ago
What's caused this wallet to be so heavily targeted? What is it that they claim to have done?
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Btcwrestle 1 month ago
#FreeSamourai
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🚨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 storyπŸ‘‡
The Rage
US Government Seeks Maximum Sentence For Keonne Rodriguez And William Hill
"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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xplbzx xplbzx@satlantis.io 1 month ago
All of this has come about from back when there were no such regulations for a thing that was regarded as a fad and hand-waved away as a joke, and only now is been taken seriously. It's a classic case of making judgements on-the-fly, and then retro-fitting regulation to prevent disruption to a corrupted system. We all know this. Honesty would look like looking at the past, acknowledging what has happened, and applying regulation to the future. Right or wrong.
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S!ayer 1 month ago
Interesting, but there are other private wallets that have done the same or similar? Lighting wallets etc. Just seems strange to target them only and no one else
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BitcoinIsFuture 1 month ago
The misinformation and fake propaganda so called "journalist" who praises shitcoines like Ethereum that give her money created out of thin air and accuses Bitcoiners in all sins on planet Earth is at work again. Another fuck up.
Leo Wandersleb's avatar Leo Wandersleb
image I'm so not surprised and hope as many as possible see this and somebody compiles a list of SCAMourai apologists - and we agree to cancel those. Sorry guys, you let people to trust these scammers where there are better alternatives. All the privacy theater was for nothing. A waste of time and fees and might well mean people go to jail because of you PoS!
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btconboard #LNHANCE or #CTV btconboard@primal.net 1 month ago
They were by far the biggest and most socially prominent. Common government tactic is to go for the biggest target in an area of β€œconcern” and hope the rest fall in line from fear. Truth is the government can never stop every Bitcoin privacy focused project/software - they don’t have the knowledge or resources. Same as the war on drugs. But they can try to scare people into not pursuing them for fear of jail.
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