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Jake Chervinsky
@jchervinsky
Privacy is normal. Living in a surveillance state in which the government demands to watch everything we do with our money at all times without obtaining a warrant is NOT normal. Treating software developers who build privacy-preserving technology as criminals is reprehensible.
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codeofcrypto
@codeofcrypto
@resipsa putting this on your radar — always appreciate your perspectives on Privacy
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res ipsa ☺︎
@resipsa
privacy folks have been pessimistic about how Samourai would fare in the system. the “BTC for privacy” narrative is a political provocation. it serves a philosophical purpose but was never pragmatic. if we meant business about privacy and not just talking about privacy, privacy-by-default options exist cc @cassie
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I have a different take on Samourai. The case is incredibly damning. It's one thing to take a stand for privacy, it's another to actively encourage money laundering on their platform and ask sanctioned entities to participate.
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Jake Chervinsky
@jchervinsky
There’s a lot to say about Samourai (both its devs and tech), but for now I’m more interested in the indictment, which seems to put forward a much more broad interpretation of money transmission than FinCEN has suggested or the law supports. It’s very hard to advise projects on compliance in the face of this….
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Undoubtedly. Overreach is always the course of events in initial prosecution, we'll have to see how it plays out. I suspect, though, that what it will ultimately converge on is indeed the damning remarks. I can't even imagine what they were thinking with some of the things they said other than explicitly aiding crime.
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