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 Why is the conviction of Roman Sterlingov for “Bitcoin Mixing” corrupt?

a. The ONLY evidence is Chainalysis software that’s proprietary with an unknown mechanism.  This ends “burden of proof”

b. Chainalysis sells services to the US government.  And to make the conflict of interest even worse, there’s a rotating door of employment with the government, with employees going back and forth.

c. The original prosecutor on Roman’s case literally joined Chainalysis mid-trial.

d. The only supposed Chainalysis evidence is from 2011.  This is past the statue of limitations. And mixing was considered legal in 2011.

e. The government gets to keep his Kraken funds that they had access to, because he didn’t hide legal funds.

f. There is no basis for someone from Sweden to be arrested in California but tried in DC, on the opposite side of the country.  They purposefully picked the corrupt Washington DC district where they could get a conviction.

g. Zero evidence was found on his personal devices or internet traffic.  And the FBI directly monitored him for 5 years. That's why they let it go so long [2011], to try to find real evidence.

I urge you for your own future freedoms to spread these words 
 # "the FBI directly monitored him for 5 years"

Now you understand ...

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