GM fellow money launderers, wasn't someone building a Nostr marketplace somewhere where you could sell stuff? anyone have a link?
The new Samourai Wallet indictment truly is a phenomenally disingenuous piece of garbage 👇
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New Samourai Indictment Paints Anonymity As A Crime
New Samourai Wallet indictment paints the developers as having built the privacy service for the sole purpose of serving criminals.
 Likely filed to reflect that the Government is no longer pursuing federal licensing violations – the new indictment removes all references to “unlicensed,” except one – SDNY seems to have taken the opportunity to make their indictment even more confusing to the judge. Entire paragraphs are moved around, language is changed, and most importantly, the new indictment seems to make zero distinction between Samourai Wallet the entity and Samourai Wallet the software. Take these two paragraphs for example, the first from the original indictment, and the second from the new one: "The cryptocurrency is 'cut down'", and leftover funds "are placed in a separate address and provided back to the Samourai user." "Samourai 'cut down' the cryptocurrency into correct sizes for a chosen pool," and "Samourai returned back to the user any leftover funds from this transaction that were too small to enter the Whirlpool by replacing them in a separate address.” So instead of correcting their technical inaccuracies, SDNY chose to double down on them. Imo, this means that prosecutors either somehow managed to get even more stupid over the past 1.5 years, or that SDNY is intentionally attempting to mislead the judge on how the Samourai Wallet software worked, making it look like the developers had more control over funds than they did in reality. They call this “justice,” my guys.
Newsletter: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is really One Big Surveillance Bill, and it's drastically underreported. OBBB increases biometric surveillance, extending it into *domestic transportation*, funding surveillance on highways and Amtrak routes near the border. OBBB will deploy autonomous surveillance towers that include remote video surveillance systems, expand the integration of real-time facial recognition and fingerprint analysis in law enforcement, and automate risk-scoring, turning Silicon Valley’s small-scale pilot programs into foundational infrastructure. Fittingly, the Trump administration also plans to extend facial recognition in Customs and Border Protection’s Traveler Verification Service via a newly proposed regulation, scanning the faces of *every* US American that travels via sea, land, or air – and is of course bypassing the public comment and review process to get it done. This will go well with the 9/11 era Real-ID, an identification program mandated for domestic air travel since May of this year, which is planned to effectively function as a digital identity. But hey, at least you’ll pay less taxes or something. Sign up for free or read all issues online 👇
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Rage Weekly: A Big Dumb Surveillance Bill
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Did Elon the dumb fucking moron break X again or is this just happening to me image
Annual reminder that we are sending people to prison because the moon is in capricorn image
Looks like there's interesting times ahead for Chainalysis again. Full story at the end of this post, which is well worth the read if you're interested in blockchain surveillance or, you know, justice or whatever. Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer convicted last year for money laundering in the Netherlands, has requested access to a Chainalysis Government license as well as insights into how Chainalysis clustering and labeling works to confirm evidence presented at his trial last year. According to the defense, addresses Pertsev has been provided with by the prosecution do not add up to what the Government claims when tracing funds manually on Etherscan. This is due to the prosecution’s use of Chainalysis software which clusters addresses together, a defense expert witness stated – a claim the prosecution denies. So far, the evidence of illicit funds flowing through Tornado Cash presented by the prosecution used to convict Pertsev last year does not appear to go beyond the citing of media reports. To prepare for Pertsev’s appeal, the defense wants to know what funds flowed where and when, noting that so far it has only been presented with spreadsheets that lack critical information, such as transaction hashes. “The defense argues that it's not enough for the government to simply point to some media articles to prove that these crimes actually happened,” says @Sjors Provoost, who attended the hearing this morning. The court will decide on Oct 2 whether it will grant the defense’s requests. Zap if u like this (and bc I am poor). ty ⚡ Full story:
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Pertsev Appeal: Defense Demands Insights Into Chainalysis Software
In a preliminary hearing on Tornado Cash developer Alex Perstev's appeal in The Netherlands, the defense is challenging evidence presented by the p...
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Anti-money laundering laws exist for one reason, and one reason only: to control the population and penalize those who dissent via extrajudicial processes. From NGOs organizing against the war on terror to supporters of disfavorable political movements, one wrong post on social media may make you lose access to any service that depends on your bank account. To employ such targeted exclusions – via sanctions or regular bank account closures – the global financial system *must* make sure that every transaction taking place is identifiable and attributable to an individual. AML does not stop crime, but functions as a system of narrative control that would become unworkable if the right to privacy in finance would exist. This weaponization of money has become the greatest tool in the West’s oppression of dissent, and we are all paying the price for it, being subjected to the dragnet surveillance it imposes. Read: Money as a tool for political censorship, the fifth article in our educational series together with @npub1mftv...rkl3 🧡
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Money As A Tool For Political Censorship
This article is part of a six-part educational series in cooperation with the non-custodial, peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange Vexl. “This right inc...