Bitcoiner Going to Prison Reveals the Government's Next Target

Show Notes

Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, joins Marty to make the case for why he and Bill deserve a presidential pardon. After a decade building privacy tools for Bitcoin, Keonne was prosecuted by the DOJ and now faces prison time for writing open source, non-custodial software. He explains why financial privacy is essential for human freedom, how Bitcoin can become either a tool for liberation or a surveillance nightmare, and what's at stake for America's ambition to become the Bitcoin capital of the world. STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VJ2dABShBz Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Sign the petition: https://billandkeonne.org/ Bitkey https://bit.ly/TFTCBitkey20 Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Obscura VPN https://obscura.net/ SLNT https://slnt.com/tftc CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc 0:00 - Intro 0:31 - Why Samourai 6:31 - Why privacy 12:00 - Government hates privacy, miners are next 17:47 - Bitkey & SLNT 19:36 - Story of the trial 33:29 - Unchained & CrowdHealth 34:45 - Do we live in a free country? 40:55 - What needs to happen? 47:07 - Chain surveillance 50:00 - Endangering innocent users 54:02 - The case for a pardon 57:00 - Does the plea set a precedent? 59:32 - How is Keonne? Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/