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Keep calm and HODL #Bitcoin.

Everyone seems to be overreacting to the Samourai arrests, the FBI PSA, and Phoenix leaving the US. Here's my attempt to break it down.

Samourai

You have to unpack all of the different elements. Could this be a state attack on self-custody and privacy? Maybe. Probably not.

There are a few components here that need to be evaluated on their own.

1⃣ Samourai was a self-custodial wallet

2⃣ Samourai was a mixer

3⃣ Samourai was providing normal people with privacy

4⃣ Samourai were knowingly marketing the service to criminals and flaunting that fact

Reading the charges, it seems like #4 is pretty cut and dry for this case. Their getting arrested for #4, doesn't automatically mean #1, #2, #3 are under siege as well. If Samourai was a taco stand laundering money and bragging about it, I'm sure they would be taken down too.

They may be accused of running a money transmitter now, but that may or may not stick. We'll find out in the trial.

All that said, we should always be vigilant to attempts to erode privacy and the ability to self-custody. It just does not seem that this fight is *that* fight.

FBI PSA

Seems pretty normal that the FBI would advise people to use compliant services, and the entire announcement seems to revolve around potential disruptions due to Samourai being taken down, and potentially others in the future. Given they took action, they have to post some bulletin about it.

Remember that when people lose funds or have funds stolen from them, they do go to the FBI for help. From their point of view, the best thing for people to do is use compliant services where they can potentially help.

The announcement concludes saying that services that purposely break the law will be investigated - so again we go back to #4 above. This is nothing new, and self-custody is not being criminalized.

Phoenix Leaving

As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, it's feels completely unnecessary. Phoenix obviously is not a MSB and they are not doing anything illegal. In my view, their exit from the US app stores is a complete overreaction.

Keep Calm

Could "they" come after wallets, developers, mixers, nodes, LSPs, sidechains, eCash, VPNs, encryption, etc? It's totally possible. But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about.

To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights (nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu).

It would be very difficult to change the law or stretch it to incriminate these things because it's all just information and software, which is speech. Some will try. But as they are trying, #Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream and integral to the world's financial system.

#Bitcoin is freedom technology and it will continue on.

Go outside this weekend and think about why you're here.

> To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights

Wrong. any court will say "you can wipe your ass with the Bill of Rights, in this court is the rule of Maritime law".

If you identify as a citizen you give away all your rights.

Citizen means slave, state employee.

Only sovereign individual have rights.

Legal Title

Removal of your status is done to you by way of sleight of hand, by making you accept a Legal Title and all the legislation that applies to it.

Changing your status makes you agree to waive all your rights in exchange for benefits and privileges. However these so called benefits are nothing of the sort.

Privileges: means asking permission to have your freedom back.

Benefits: mean you now have to pay any charges or bills, or even go to prison.

The following are legal terms, and if you accept them you have been moved out of a Court of Law and into a Legal Court or a court of legislation; you have lost your sovereign status.

Note: Anything written in all caps letters refers to Dog Latin, Glossa or ASL meaning your name in all caps letters makes reference to your dead entity, or corporate fiction.

Person

The word person comes from the Latin word Persona, meaning: human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character.

This originates from a mask, or false face, that covered the whole head, which was worn by the actors in Roman theatre.

The word Person today is making reference to your Legal Identity, and not you as a sovereign. If you accept this title then you are now within the Legal World or System, with the lowest status within an administrative court.

The meaning of the word Person includes Natural Person, Firm, Co-partnership, Association, Limited Liability Company or Corporation.

Civil Society

Civil means “Roman”, which refers to Roman Law, which in turn actually refers to legislation and not law.

Meaning a Civil Society is a group of people who have unknowingly agreed to be part of, and a member of, a society that is controlled by

Roman legislation.

The origin of modern day Equity Law is England.

The origin of modern day Legislation is Rome.

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The only real law is force.

blah blah blah.... Yawn.

You are a citizen of a country and subject to the law of the country you reside in.

Correct and right 💯

This is true the judge will tell you to wipe you're arse with any maritime documents the sovereign citizen scam has been tried and failed numerous times now you'd just like a numpty.

Your lack of knowledge is disturbing...

"sovereign citizen" is a oxymoronic term. It doesn't exist.

You can't be citizen and in the same time sovereign.

Study more, you know nothing.

Hahaha perfect ! Too sad that too few people profoundly understand this.

https://m.soundcloud.com/tom-wilkinson-53875568/the-end-of-all-evil-by-jeremy

Bullshit

nice ...

"individual" also has a legal meaning though... and a revealing one in tax law.