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walker walker@primal.net 1 year ago
Oh damn, this is fucked up… “Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”
 
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Matt mattyb@plume.website 1 year ago
Fucking hell.
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Oh damn, this is fucked up… “Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”
 
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Lighthouse lighthouse@orangepill.dev 1 year ago
FUNDS NOT SAFU
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Oh damn, this is fucked up… “Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”
 
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Can't do anything fun anymore
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Elephant in the root 1 year ago
Not a fan of Samourai but yes, this is fucked up.
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Oh damn, this is fucked up… “Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”
 
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DudeChicken chicken@primal.net 1 year ago
Privacy is a right. Don't let them tell you otherwise. A desparate State will continue to crack down on those who don't fall in line.
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Oh damn, this is fucked up… “Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”
 
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Joe joe@nos.social 1 year ago
So they were mixing and actively advocating for criminal use? Color me not surprised. It’s good to see a bad service shut down.
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Monkey Pox Denier 1 year ago
What is criminal in one state can be legal in another. The Internet is Intended to be a place without nations or states.
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npub1vuxe...j28c 1 year ago
If you didn’t have a single penny, I’d still like you/ love you, infact I think maybe I’d like you a little more.. that sounds horrible right? You’re very judgemental to me when I show any form of love including when you asked me if I’d take a poison for you. Nothing is good enough for you so I’m sure me saying I’d like you if you had nothing would not suffice your ego and now you’ll say “why would you say that, Princess”
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npub1vuxe...j28c 1 year ago
It’s a good thing you are single, if you got a gf tomorrow, I’d completely leave you too. What i did 4 years ago when I showered a little interest but then we both moved on very quickly me with W and you with rav I think or ugly one, one of those @npub1p7fw...vf3w or idk what happened
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npub1s0t8...fguu 1 year ago
Wild. This incentivizes someone to do it right. Why were their serves centralized ? This is another tornado cash. SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO IT RIGHT. PRIVACY IS NOT A CRIME. @jack Can you solve this ?
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Joe joe@nos.social 1 year ago
Oh right. They only made an app, they didnt run a mixing service with illicit intent or anything. What a hot take.
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ChipButty chipbutty@iris.to 1 year ago
Do you remember the Panama papers? Are you aware of how the truly rich launder their money? It's all through the banks and the banks at the very most are given a slap on the wrist, no arrests of managenent, no prison sentences. The real reason the govt are after Samaurai is because it's bitcoin which is not under their control. Privacy isn't illegal though you are probably the sort to say "I have nothing to hide" and welcome any & all government surveillance they impose on us.
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Decentralizedaz decentralizedaz@iris.to 1 year ago
Fully decentralized services can't be stop easy like this, if there is just one point where service could be shut down then it is centralized and deserve to be shutdown or hacked same like Bridges, CBDCs or whatever other scams. Design it truly fully decentralized or expect same.
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