How is @SamouraiWallet a "money transmitting business" if users never surrender their private keys? How is there a "transfer" if users retain custody?

Otherwise, why isn't an ISP a MTB? Or a miner? Or a node operator?

Announcing new law by imprisonment is disgusting.

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Verizon must be the biggest money transmitter out there.

The legal system is just smoke and mirrors. Laws are not based on facts but opinions. This is obvious when you see that rulings come down to interpretations of the court.

Laws for thee, and not for me.

Defund the government as all governments are SLAVERY!

Did anybody let Gary know that crypto is now considered money by the DOJ?

Left Hand, may you never meet Right Hand. Total fucking clowns.

Literally any company that transmits packets of data that communicate the transfer of title to a thing of value could be guilty of being a unregistered money transmitter.

Guilty until proven innocent

Did users pay them a fee for a service. If so the way the Feds work it will be a slam dunk on prosecution.

Note I didn't say it was right, I said it would be a slam dunk. Federal juries are told what to judge. They obey.

They are prosecuting software developers. It's like prosecuting a knife salesman because his customer killed someone, it's insane.

People should just use decentralized coinjoin services, like joinmarket/jam.

Did those developers charge for the service?

Stop thinking I am not on your side here, I am talking about the way things are not the way I think they should be.

What do they do if the node isn't in their country?

They do this because it scares the shit out of other Devs. And it's working. Sparrow removed whirlpool and Soroban from their wallet today.

yes because they are stupid motherfuckers that are building stuff to fight the government in reach of the government

idk how to explain how stupid that is

doesn't scare me but i'm more interested in unleashing a million nostriches at them than just helping a few thousand privacy fanatics