Take a moment today to remember that Keonne Rodriguez turned himself into prison. Where heβll stay for the next 5 years. For writing open source privacy software.
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The state the world is in is sad. Just sad.
Been praying for him and family - blessings to all the freedom warriors.
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That he had to plead guilty because he knew that the law as written would not be respected is perhaps the darkest aspect
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Punishment, control, & fear=
The Nation State
So far, #bitcoin has not fixed this....
Doesn't make much sense to me. Bitcoin does give me hope. Opt out. Maybe we can make a difference
That should be an eye opener for everyone in this space esp after Assange... Now the fact that the law(s) will be disregarded almost entirely to get at you should be factored into the development process for any of these ecryption products
In the future anybody doing this, take the tip....be like Satoshi
Thatβs not why he went to prison.
Hopefully:
- first Trump pardons them
- and then people understand that despite the pardon the situation is totally fucked up.
When you sip your coffee. When you go for a walk. When you hig someone you love.
This is not a game. This is not a hobbie.
This is a war.
Get your head out of your ass and put it on a swivel. Everything is on the line.
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Wasnβt it because he was running the mixing service? Donβt get me wrong- itβs a mark of a tyrannical regime still and others have been put in jail for writing open source software, but his case is not about the software itself - at least that was my understanding
Samourai was a coinjoin service. Very different thing to a mixer.
Why was it then?
Yup. Super f-ed.
Trump is going to give him a pardon.
May he be pardoned shortly!!!!
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The posts of him celebrating early Christmas with his family and Shia wife watching him walk in to prison were rough.
Letβs work on getting another pardon done during this administration.
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They didnt take custody.
Letβs fight for freedom fir our own soldiers π«‘π§‘π½
Do you know something the rest of us donβt?
You still have faith in politicians. How quaint.
Doesnβt matter. No one should spend a single day in jail for building a tool that someone, somewhere used for an illegal purpose.
And? Whatβs your point?
He will stay in prison for just writing open source code, while many crypto scammers are completely free without facing any kind of legal issues. This world is insane!
I am not very optimist on that. But I hope you are right!
No. He:s not in prison for writting software.
They accused him of something else and he plead guilty.
Hope is better than nothing.
Trump picked his own deep state advisors - but there are a couple good ones left. About 3/1000 in DC.
Any idea what else they accused him of?
It's not jail, you don't even understand the definition of basic things.
It's prison.
I never said that they should spend time incarcerated, why are you inventing an argument here?
History will remember this as a crime against freedom, not justice. Writing code is not violence. Punishing it is fear.
He's in prison for talking shit. The documents are full of quotes of his Twitter posts, forum posts, telegram chats, whatever, where he explicitly said his business is helping criminals, or money laundering, or inviting exchange thieves to use his mixer...
AM NOT saying this is morally enough to jail him. A lot of this was obvious joking. But it is 100% talking shit and it gave the Feds what they needed on a silver platter to establish "intent" and it was used against him, whether he held funds or not.
I hope he gets his pardon though.
Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing. He showed his face because that's what a man with a noble cause does.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty says they plead guilty to "operating a money transmitting business that transmitted crime proceeds, washing more than $200 million in dirty money for criminals"
5 years is the maximum penalty for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. They could have faced the same even if they did it on paper at that scale.
a weekly reminder.
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