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Re:Federal Prison for Writing Code by rawgabbit on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:27AM (#46354870)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-walle...

The government claims he knowingly promoted his software to launder dirty bitcoin.

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Re:Federal Prison for Writing Code by manithree on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:40AM (#46354991)
Which is debatable, but not illegal. SCOTUS has said so multiple times.
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Re:Federal Prison for Writing Code by rawgabbit on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:26PM (#46358610)
It would be interesting if this case goes to the Supreme Court.
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Re:Federal Prison for Writing Code by manithree on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:09AM (#46354700)
Samourai wallet has been on HN several times, but this interview with the creator just before he goes to prison for writing open source code is very interesting.
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Re:Federal Prison for Writing Code by ydlr on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:44PM (#46361852)
I'm a little confused. Was this code he released that allowed others to run a mixing service, or was it a mixing service ran by this guy, or is it some kind of distributed mixing service that cannot be controlled by anyone?
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