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 Oh damn, this is fucked up… 

“Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill Are Charged with Operating Samourai Wallet, an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business That Executed Over $2 Billion in Unlawful Transactions and Laundered Over $100 Million in Criminal Proceeds”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering

Website seized, too… https://i.nostr.build/vG294.jpg  
 Very sad 
 But of course no action for the billions laundered through J.P. Morgan and other major Trad-Fi institutions. 

🙄 I’d be willing to bet Epstein alone did 100 million through J.P. Where is the warrant for Jamie?! 
 When committing money laundering make sure that you’re also well connected political and judged to be an essencial part of the economic system.  
 Fucking hell.

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 it was coming ...  
 Wtf 
 Buht bItCoIn iSnT mOnEY 
 FUNDS NOT SAFU
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 Wow.  
 wow

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 bummer 
 But it’s the land of the free, right? 
 wow 🤯 I need you now!!!!! @jack 
 If you didn’t have a single penny, I’d still like you/ love you, infact I think maybe I’d like you a little more.. that sounds horrible right? You’re very judgemental to me when I show any form of love including when you asked me if I’d take a poison for you. Nothing is good enough for you so I’m sure me saying I’d like you if you had nothing would not suffice your ego and now you’ll say “why would you say that, Princess” 
 It’s a good thing you are single, if you got a gf tomorrow, I’d completely leave you too. What i did 4 years ago when I showered a little interest but then we both moved on very quickly me with W and you with rav I think or ugly one, one of those @jack or idk what happened 
 Wild. This incentivizes someone to do it right. Why were their serves centralized ? 
This is another tornado cash. 

SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO IT RIGHT. 
PRIVACY IS NOT A CRIME.

@jack Can you solve this ? 
 terrible to see this attack on them. 
 Fuck them all! Im so sick of it 
 Can't do anything fun anymore 
 Not a fan of Samourai but yes, this is fucked up.

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 Join Market 
 What is join market  
 It's awesome. A marketplace of decentralized collaborative transactions. Here's the only interface I know of, I'm not very technical: https://jamdocs.org/
More info: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/tree/master/docs
 
 Thanks I'll check it out 
 🫡  
 Privacy is a right. Don't let them tell you otherwise. A desparate State will continue to crack down on those who don't fall in line.

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 This is insane 
 🤬 
 OMFG!!! 
 Not in the cartel? Prison for you 
 Shit! 😳 
 We are in the fight you part it would seem 
 This is less about the wallet and more about the mixing they were doing. 
 So they were mixing and actively advocating for criminal use?

Color me not surprised.

It’s good to see a bad service shut down. 
 What is criminal in one state can be legal in another. 

The Internet is Intended to be a place without nations or states.  
 

https://m.primal.net/Hzdg.jpg
 
 Oh right. They only made an app, they didnt run a mixing service with illicit intent or anything.

What a hot take. 
 Do you remember the Panama papers? Are you aware of how the truly rich launder their money? It's all through the banks and the banks at the very most are given a slap on the wrist, no arrests of managenent, no prison sentences. The real reason the govt are after Samaurai is because it's bitcoin which is not under their control. Privacy isn't illegal though you are probably the sort to say "I have nothing to hide" and welcome any & all government surveillance  they impose on us.

https://primal.net/e/note1p86g2dwg0z3qs6rx49lmv7epr53r42uy92g85ug35l0f6zyes32syz87sf 
 Let me know if you think Lyn's remarks on financial privacy vs money laundering are a hot take

https://primal.net/e/note1mc36qeww634g6gqt937l50mhals4nszda3uaq07mg34a22cxym5qcealw0 
 How is a non custodial wallet a money transmitting business? It does not control the network? The protocols. WTF. 
 It's about Whirlpool, their coinjoing feature 
 not surprised. governments gonna govern 

we just gotta keep on fighting 
 Fully decentralized services can't be stop easy like this, if there is just one point where service could be shut down then it is centralized and deserve to be shutdown or hacked same like Bridges, CBDCs or whatever other scams. Design it truly fully decentralized or expect same.