Federal Prison for Writing Code(reason.com)

4 pointsby manithree7 bulan yang lalu5 comments

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

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manithree7 bulan yang lalu

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.

rawgabbit7 bulan yang lalu

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

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

manithree7 bulan yang lalu

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

rawgabbit7 bulan yang lalu

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

ydlr7 bulan yang lalu

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?