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

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The new Samourai Wallet indictment truly is a phenomenally disingenuous piece of garbage 👇 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.
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The new Samourai Wallet indictment truly is a phenomenally disingenuous piece of garbage 👇 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.
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The SDNY are attempting to frame deterministic addresses as being "supplied" and "created by" the devs as way to say they transferred funds. The addresses aren't made in some crackhouse kitchen where the devs bake up a fresh address to handout. They are determined by user's private keys. Absolute retard shit.
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the SDNY tried to cover for Epstein, and only took action when it became clear an unsealing in a civil suit was going to expose them. they are the dirtiest court in America.
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