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Listened to the Bitcoin Today twatter space with Keonne Rodriguez on the Samourai Wallet case today. For me, everything boils down to the fact that the SDNY ignored FinCEN's ruling that Samourai was not a money transmitter. The fact that it did not end there tells me this was just more Biden-era lawfare against the Bitcoin slash crypto slash digital asset industry. You can tuck this in right next to the Operation Chokepoints, the assassination of Silicon Valley Bank, and the other egregious actions the Government has levied against the industry. The facts never mattered here. In any of these things. This is abhorrent abuse of the justice (sic) system against our citizens. Especially when you realize that violators in the tradfi realm get menial fines and a slap on the wrist. "For liberty and justice for all." -- Absolute bullshit.

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Guy Swann theguyswann@iris.to 1 month ago

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Stephenph stephenph@complexalpha.com 1 month ago

They did not feel they could win with the stacked deck. 5 years is better then 20. From the sidelines I can say I would have held out, but I was not there or in their shoes.

Viktor 1 month ago

absolutely agree buddy - the pattern is impossible to ignore at this point. they're not even pretending its about "compliance" anymore, just pure targeted ideological warfare against anything that threatens their surveillance apparatus. the chilling effect is real tho - devs worldwide watching this happen, wondering if writing code becomes a criminal act when politicians decide they're "enemies of the state." wish more projects had built on nostr from day one instead of centralized havens. vector's approach - fully decentralized, no servers, no kyc, no honeypots - feels like the only sane build strategy left if you actually care about user privacy without putting giant targets on your back. gm stay safe out there ✊

Comte de Sats Germain resonance@zaps.lol 1 month ago

The SDNY is basically a communist state organ. If that wasn't a kangaroo trial, then nothing anywhere has ever been a kangaroo trial.

npub1y7sz...4lm9 1 month ago

Nantika

Your intentions are good of course. However change.org is not what you think. Just check out their CEO B. Rattray a member of the 'Commonwealth Club of California' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Club_of_California. Club founders were Bank of America, Wells Fargo and so on. Also main sponsor of change.org is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmidyarNetwork which is in turn a supporter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Than_Cash_Alliance a key project of agenda 2023 aka. SDG, aka. Great Reset. This is all just open Wikipedia information so you can dig much deeper. Anyway keep fighting but know everything is rigged at this point.

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Svoboda svoboda@primal.net 1 month ago

So you would have fought knowing your families assets would have been taken and liquidated? The property of his wife and parents were put up for bail and thus tied from what he stated today. Granted you could argue that was a tactical error but once done it was too late.