Federal Prison for Writing Code(reason.com)

4 pointsby manithreeil y a 7 mois5 comments

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

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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.

rawgabbitil y a 7 mois

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

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

manithreeil y a 7 mois

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

rawgabbitil y a 7 mois

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

ydlril y a 7 mois

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?