It has recently come to my attention that many American Congressmen who have taken very public supporters who have taken a bitcoin stance, are currently not knowing about the prosecution of Samorai Wallet Developers Keon Rodrigue and William Hill.
This is just a bite to me as a bitcrinner. The current legal prosecution of the Samorai team, as well as relevant prosecution against Roman Sterlingov, mixer bitcoin fog, and accused of operating Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, two developers behind Tornado Cash, the most important legal cases are the most important legal cases that affect the sovereignty and personal use of bitcoin today.
The Roman Storm is currently sitting in jail, which is a punishment with zero difficult evidence. His sentence was nothing more than a blockchain analysis company Channelis. Samorai and Tornado Cash Developers are going Purely sued under the Money Laundering Act to develop self -custodial software, under any circumstances in which their software cannot be used, gave them no control over user funds.,
The fact is that it is not only on any Congress or Congress radar, which claims to be a bitcoin supporter, but is not being talked loudly, is absurd.
So, let’s do something to change it. I am reading the citizen of every United States to take it to take the form letter below, fill it properly, and send it to your Congress or Congresswoman-either if you are in a district, claiming to be a publicly pro-bitcin with a representative.
This article is a tech. The opinion expressed is a complete writer and not necessarily reflecting BTC Inc. or Bitcoin magazine.
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State, Zipcode]
[Email]
[Phone Number]
[Date]
Representative [or] Senator [Congressman or Congresswoman’s Name]
[Congressman/Congresswoman’s Address]
[City, State, Zipcode]
I am writing as a concerned citizen [your State]I would like to bring a very important case about criminal prosecution of open source developers writing software for bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystems.
William Hill of Keon Rodriguez and Samorai Wallet, Roman Semenov and Roman storm are being prosecuted for various acts or claims of conspiracy for money laundering, money laundering. All these people have done nothing but to produce and publish open source software that was independently available to the public.
A fundamental reality of a decentralized network such as bitcoin is the ability that their architecture gives their users nothing to interact and transact with their money, but to use open source and free available software that communicates with a decentralized computer network. When using cryptocurrency in this way, no one has any ability to affect, control or restrict the transfer of a person’s property on these decentralized networks except the last user of the software.
All these people have done nothing beyond the production and operating the open-source software available independently for the purpose of helping the last users of these networks protect their personal privacy. Americans have the right to privacy, especially financial privacy, which is why the Banks of the Security Act stated that financial institutions take measures to protect the financial information of American and to protect privacy.
Blockchain by their nature, however, is public reserves of information. All should be able to download and verify the completeness of the history of the blockchain’s transaction to guarantee that the rules of the decentralized network are being properly followed. Everyone’s transaction history. This allows anyone, which you can potentially look for how much money you have, even to follow and learn future transactions.
This is not only a very sensitive information for being in public domains normally, but it can prescribe very serious risk for people’s physical safety. Incidents of kidnapping, physical attacks and home attacks to steal bitcoin from private individuals have increased in frequency as its value has increased.
Software that enables users to maintain its privacy when using a network such as bitcoin, not only for their privacy, but also for their physical security. The Samorai wallet and tornado cash, purely do this in a self-custodial manner, which means that no other institution other than the last users has ever control, or the ability to influence, which transactions are done. This also means that there is no legal institution that current fees are actually applicable (ie a detention financial institution subject to financial rules).
Separately, Roman Sterlingov has been convicted in the criminal court of operating the Custodial Mixing service used to achieve privacy on bitcoin networks. While this service was in custody, and as the financial regulator would be obligations, the evidence presented in the testing of Roman’s participation in the operation of this service is purely circumstantial. Many details of the nature of this evidence, and its question, are present on the public record from Sterlingov’s Attorney Tor Ekland.
I firmly urge to investigate these cases, and take action to fix these serious abortion of justice, resulting in the application of non-analogy financial rules as a result of the application of software developers, and a reasonable doubt to gain confidence in a criminal proceedings.
[Only include the bold if your congressman/congresswoman is publicly pro-Bitcoin]
This is incredibly important when it comes to freedom to use bitcoin and cryptocurrency in a self-custodial and freedom-conscience manner. I hope that your tasks in the Congress will be seen to be on their stand on public records when it comes to bitcoin as a policy issue.
sincerely,
[Your Name]
