I strongly urge you to read Williamβ€˜s own sentencing letter linked in the article. William and Keonne developed Samourai because they wanted Bitcoin to work as intended: as a censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer digital cash. Never thought Id say this, but I wish there were more people like them. image
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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‘‡ https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-maximum-sentence/
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Zaikaboy 1 month ago
The state can go fuck itself... #FreeSamourai
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SweedWick 1 month ago
Watch what they do, not what they say.
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The_Crin 1 month ago
here is the same thing that happened with megaupload and the pirate bay, even though they remained within the legal framework and if they sought to provide tools to avoid problems, they still wanted to be imprisoned just because they don't like the idea they were giving.
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sedited 1 month ago
Yes, I am surprised to hear you say that πŸ˜…
The Samourai devs were the most disgusting and arrogant people I had to interact on social media with. I don't wish there were more people like this. That said, I hope they don't get jail time for open source contributions.
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hodlher 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing, I went down an AI rabbit hole about financial privacy thanks to ur post πŸ™πŸΌ
unreal to think code is considered law by that matter who should be held responsible for enabling child pornography to be digitized, prostitution to be broadcasted, narcotics to be advertised
Sorry I am getting this right. Is that a potential sentence for building open source software that simply provides pseudonimity in BTC usage? I get this who black market thing but - privacy strong toolset is not a crime!
I strongly urge every Bitcoiner to adopt Monero as a protective shield.
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I strongly urge you to read Williamβ€˜s own sentencing letter linked in the article. William and Keonne developed Samourai because they wanted Bitcoin to work as intended: as a censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer digital cash. Never thought Id say this, but I wish there were more people like them. image View quoted note β†’
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I don't know if that's true but i know you damn sure don't get what you deserve if you plead not guilty
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unSATiated 1 month ago
When legal systems becomes the incomprehensible and tangled mess we have now, enforcement becomes arbitrary. In a twisted way it makes sense for sentencing to be arbitrary too.
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Mnm 1 month ago
You don't get what you deserve when judges are corrupt.
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There are many people like them. Well maybe not like them to be honest as the SamouraΓ― crew was somehow a hell of a badass team. But many people are working on that two, with their own approach and vision of the thing.
why would tornado cash and samourai be a problem, whilst zashi kinda does the same?
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.
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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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There are, but you write hit pieces about them. Now you're pretending to care about peer-to-peer digital cash. Go tell it to the ethereum foundation shitcoiner.
Pretty sure the guys that want to reorg the chain because the law says so are not it, but hey Iβ€˜d defend the retarded cat eater too if that helps
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