Mike Hassard
@mikehassard
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Joined February 2009
Roman Sterlingov is wrongfully accused of operating Bitcoin Fog, a #Bitcoin mixing service. This is the first in a series of threads I will post in an effort to spread word of this unjust prosecution.
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Worth repeating—when ICE officers draw their weapons at people, needlessly, which we see lots of proof of on a consistent basis—that’s a Fourth Amendment violation.
Fourth Circuit publishes an opinion to make a point that otherwise would go unseen. https://t.co/nZctfG9aUp
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The DOJ now claims non-custodial software “transfers funds,” arguing it’s “factually wrong and irrelevant” that users execute their own transactions, a stance that leaves every developer exposed until Congress steps in.
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😬 Crypto policy shift? Really? Where exactly? 📜 Blanche memo? 🎙️ Galeotti speech? “Control, custody, decentralization matter”? For real? I see zero policy shift at DOJ. Here’s yesterday’s Rule 29 filing from SDNY: 🔗 https://t.co/ITjV08rCHV If you built a non-custodial,
courtlistener.com
Memorandum in Opposition to Motion
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There's a lot of things I can't do myself without using a tool ... Tornado Cash transactions, taxes, word processing, making eggs. It's cool that according to the SDNY I don't actually do any of those things at all! Turbotax is paying my taxes, bill gates is writing my papers,
Incredible revelation by the SDNY in its response to @rstormsf. Apparently, users don’t execute their own transactions whatsoever; instead, they assert that the Tornado Cash UI itself conducts the transaction and the user’s wallet is merely a tool for it to do so. In other words,
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The DOJ says non-custodial software transfers funds. That it’s the *users* who execute transactions is "both factually wrong and irrelevant,” the Government argues in opposition to Roman Storm's motion for acquittal. *Anyone* can be held liable for unlicensed money transmission
🚨NEW: ROMAN STORM SHOULD NOT BE ACQUITTED, GOV SAYS "The jury reasonably concluded that Tornado Cash transferred funds," according to the prosecution. Full story👇 https://t.co/dbaei0xMsm
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Imagine your house raided by a swat team because you wrote code for a noncustodial bitcoin wallet. The so-called "war on crypto" rages on. Lauren is going on a Stella Assange arc now. #FreeSamourai
Me and @keonne on our last road trip together before 40 armed FBI agents raided our home. Repping Whirlpool with his hoodie. iykyk
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The pardon office has done an extraordinary job of processing applications and advocating for pardons. Thank you @EdMartinDOJ and thank you @DAGToddBlanche! Let's keep em coming!
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There's a witch hunt after open-source projects like @SamouraiWallet. But even worse, the FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM for these devs might be an unsolvable one. "You either do it the way Satoshi did it, or you don't do it at all." @frankcorva @davidzmorris
IS YOUR PRIVACY IN DANGER? & what’s next for the Samourai Wallet devs? Don’t miss our LIVE AT PUBKEY show with @frankcorva and @davidzmorris (of @theragetech) to hear what they've learned from the Samourai sentencings—and what it means for the future of our industry. 🧡🍻🙏
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@theragetech This needs to pass, and simultaneously we need to free Samourai devs! Put an end to this madness.
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🚨JUST IN: New Market Structure discussion draft would protect non-custodial developers from money transmission charges https://t.co/XYE5XLHR90
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For Bitcoiners who upset about the Samourai Wallet outcome, this is our best shot going forward. @RealAngelaMc was one of the main driving forces behind the Ross pardon, so please reach out with any support you can give 👇🏼
The Samurai Wallet sentencing is terrible. I am working on it. I am working on a LOT of these cases. I need Bitcoiners to flex their influence right now. You need to make calls to the admin. We will not win this in woke courts. We can win in the Whitehouse.
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A Boomer judge, seemingly unaware of how computers work, sentences a dude to 5 years in prison for writing code. First Amendment not applicable, apparently. You don't hate the state enough. Read Rothbard.
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Joins us tomorrow to discuss the sentencing of Keonne Rodriguez at 4pm Eastern on spaces and from 5.30 live at Pubkey in NYC 👇 With @davidzmorris @frankcorva
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This is unjust and upsetting, but also inevitable. The SW defendants waived their right to appeal any sentence 5 years or shorter, and Judge Cote is a notorious harsh sentencer.
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1 Million Downloads 🔥! @vikrantnyc on @cakewallet , Monero, and the Rise of “Privacy Coins”. Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode TMRW 11/7 at 12:00PM-EST! Watch here on X or on YT➡️: https://t.co/tpiYw749KY TWITCH ➡️: https://t.co/jweI0s1Jva Rumble : https://t.co/n9pOCpjvGX
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Bitcoin Twitter has become a cesspool of fiat maximalists looking to enrich themselves by promoting absolute garbage. Example : Today the majority of people are jerking off wall street fiat products and don’t even know what happened to KEONNE RODRIGUEZ.
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This witchhunt is personal to me. Samourai wallet integrated our XMR<>BTC protocol into their wallet early on (about 2-3 years ago) TDevD even made some minor contributions to our repository. He has now been sentenced to five years in prison. Although the Samourai team was not
Keonne Rodriguez has received the maximum possible sentence on his guilty plea for operating an unlicensed money transmitter. He will serve 60 months in prison and pay a $250,000 fine. More details on today's sentencing hearing soon, watch this space.
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Going to be a killer panel, can't wait to see this!
KYC has crept into every corner of finance, eroding privacy, creating honeypots for hackers, exposing users to data leaks, and locking out those who need access most. It turns personal identity into a liability instead of protection. Bitcoin offers another path, one that
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🚨JUST IN: KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS, $250,000 FINE
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