I'd HIGHLY recommend listening to this interview in it's entirety. Some of the absurd facts of this case:

1. FinCEN in both 2013 and then again in 2019 explicitly stated that you must take custody of bitcoin to be a money transmitting business and that non-custodial software did not count (something Samourai, based on FinCEN and advice of counsel never did to stay within the law)

2. DOJ Blanche Memo in 2025 again reiterates this fact

3. Prosecutors asked FinCEN specifically if Samouri was doing something illegal and they said no. They went ahead and charged them anyways and hid this critical fact unlawfully for over a year until the defense was able to find it

4. When the defense tried to bring these facts to light, they switched out the judge on the case to one known for being extremely pro-prosecutor and giving the harshest sentences. They judge refused to even hear the defense's arguments

Having followed many cases within the "justice" system for over 20 years, unfortunately, this isn't an anomaly. This is standard operating procedure. It's enraging every time, but this is nothing out of the ordinary. We need to put pressure on Trump to #pardonsamourai, but the system itself is fundamentally broken.

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Yes, I don’t want religious nonsense either.

3-5 year olds need to be constantly confronted with that stuff?

Why are there so few wholesome movies for small children? Almost impossible to find ones where there’s no dead parents, violence, or scary things. Even G-rated movies typically have at least one of those.

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When government actually shuts down permanently.

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Can the filteroor / Knots folks please just fork off already? So much time and mental energy is being wasted by developers trying to explain why their position is terrible for Bitcoin’s decentralization 🤦‍♂️

Wow. Significantly more than on YouTube 👀

These last few days have been gut wrenching. So heartbreaking for the families.

I can only hope that it starts waking more people up so some good comes out of these tragedies. Long-term, the best solution to reducing political violence is to dramatically reduce or eliminate the state. The nature of the state is violence and when people are able to wield the state’s violence against each other incredible amounts of strife, and in extreme cases, violence, manifest. We need to strive for a more peaceful society, based on the principles of non-aggression.

1,513% increase. Not bad, but need to cross 2,000%.

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Over a decade ago, Figma’s billionaire CEO was looking for ways to short bitcoin. Now he’s got $70 million on the balance sheet and is looking to buy $30 million more.

Fiat is hopeless. Bitcoin is hope.

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A Japanese hotel company with 1 hotel has ~50% more bitcoin than Coinbase, despite Coinbase having a 13 year head start 😂

FYI, this chart excludes fiatcoins. https://charts.bitbo.io/bitcoin-dominance/

Bitcoin dominance, despite being a flawed metric which doesn’t account for lack of alt coin liquidity, is approaching historic highs since the launch of Ethereum.