"The government has chosen to criminalize privacy technology not because it enables crime, but because it enables independence."
To want financial privacy is to be labelled a criminal. If you build tools that provide it, you're facilitating crime. The legal system implicitly forbids financial privacy for the individual citizen and the Samourai Case is a clear cut example of this. Keonne Rodriguez, co-developer of Samourai Wallet, pled guilty to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, not for committing crimes himself, but for building software! The government has chosen to criminalize privacy technology not because it enables crime, but because it enables independence. Rodriguez's sentence wasn't about law enforcement. It was about sending a message: financial privacy itself is a permissioned privilege. The state wants everyone to know; thou shalt not have financial privacy. That's the only logical conclusion you come to after listening to this chat that nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz had with Rodriguez.
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