In a letter to the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the defense in the Samourai Wallet case illustrate why a hearing on the prosecution’s withholding key information in the case is in order.
The prosecutors in the Samourai Wallet case have stated that they did not violate any legal norms in only recently sharing key details of a discussion that they had with members of FinCEN in August 2023 and push to move forward with the case.
Almost one year after the U.S. government charged the Samourai Wallet developers with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, the developers appeared in court for another pre-trial hearing.
Yesterday, President Trump signed a full pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. This was a tremendous victory for the Bitcoin (and Libertarian) movement.
It proved with...
Defense attorneys for Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill continue to argue that the developers didn’t operate a money transmitting business with Samourai, and Rodriguez requests modifications to his bail conditions.
"Then they fight you" has finally arrived. Financial privacy is in the crosshairs and Bitcoin's promise as "freedom money" is at stake. From "The Privacy Issue".
Samourai Wallet developer William Lonergan Hill makes his first public court appearance, while the US Department of Justice (DoJ) updates the court on how it plans to proceed with its case against Hill and his former partner at Samourai, Keonne Rodriguez.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) says it plans to bring "substantial" evidence against the developers while US senators argue that they did nothing wrong.
