Federal Prison for Writing Code

https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/19/hes-serving-5-years-in-prison-for-bitcoin-privacy-software/

by manithree • 7 months ago

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manithree2• 7 months ago

Samourai wallet has been on HN several times, but this interview with the creator just before he goes to prison for writing open source code is very interesting.

rawgabbit2• 7 months ago

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-walle...

The government claims he knowingly promoted his software to launder dirty bitcoin.

manithree2• 7 months ago

Which is debatable, but not illegal. SCOTUS has said so multiple times.

rawgabbit2• 7 months ago

It would be interesting if this case goes to the Supreme Court.

ydlr• 7 months ago

I'm a little confused. Was this code he released that allowed others to run a mixing service, or was it a mixing service ran by this guy, or is it some kind of distributed mixing service that cannot be controlled by anyone?

Federal Prison for Writing Code

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