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🚨NEW: NOTES FROM THE INSIDE Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez documents "the absolute worst 30 days of my life." By @keonne

Hi everyone. I am sorry it has been so long since I last checked in with you. As most of you probably know, I was transferred to a new prison to participate in a program that would take a year off my sentence when completed. That journey should have been a simple 4 hour drive, but since I was denied a self transfer furlough the trip took 30 days, two cross country flights, three states, and cost the tax payer well over $10,000 before I finally arrived a couple hundred miles from where I started. It took me over a month to decompress after the nightmare that is the BOP transit system (you can read all about it in the next installment of Notes From The Inside) and just as I began to settle in here at FCI McKean we received some terrible news. Yesterday we were told by the Warden that the program I travelled all that way for had been "deactivated" and very soon I - along with 70 others in the program - would have to go through the transit system all over again to be sent somewhere where the program was still active. When I first arrived here other inmates warned me that things were rotten here at McKean. What is supposed to be a 9 month program averages 12-16 months here. One of the DTS officers who runs the program was suspended pending investigation and assigned to the mailroom, and many guys had missed their release dates and were forced to spend longer in prison. Why in the world did the BOP spend all that money transiting me and others to a program that was clearly dying on the vine?! So now the BOP is going to waste around $700,000 shipping all of us around the country. The ridiculous thing is they do not need to shut the program down at all. They have all the pieces in place to push the current participants through. The frontline staff (case managers, counsellors, DTS, etc) are largely empathetic and competent. The failure is one of institutional mismanagement and leadership. A lack of engagement with staff by Regional and institutional leadership has hamstrung staff and inmate alike. Recognizing those institutional failures would require government workers take accountability or be held accountable. Never going to happen! Instead, the taxpayer will be on the hook financially, we'll be shipped out like cattle, and the yokels who couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery will keep their jobs and find something else to screw up. @leamuirleyn has written to BOP leadership asking them to reconsider shutting the program down and instead send over a temporary leader who can shepherd the current participants through the program. This would save the Bureau and the taxpayer significantly. It is a longshot but one has to try. So that is the latest update. I have no idea when or where I am going to be shipped. Thank you everyone for your letters, books, prayers, and continued support. It means a lot. Until we speak again... Keonne @realDonaldTrump @OfficialFBOP @BOPDirector @BOPDepDirector @JusticeOIG @MarshallProj @PrisonPolicy

Launching a new Open Source grant board. Board membership is all clear for several years of source available grifting up to and including $101m of losses. HMU

It's becoming clear that all the coldcard shit was known by many, but a corrupt influencer class took over and made sure it was buried. And now that it blew up, they're trying to bury self-custody altogether.

Not even forcing plebs to transact on chain could push fees above 2 sat/vbyte

The gov't theory in my case isn't about me. It's a template. Under US v. Storm, "money transmitting" no longer requires custody or control of funds. Publishing code that others use is enough. Who's in danger: → Every maintainer of open-source privacy, messaging, or crypto tools that any bad actor ever touches → Every operator of a financial service — DeFi or not — who learns some % of users are illicit and keeps operating. Knowledge alone becomes the crime → Every dev of immutable, self-custodial software, held to a duty to "stop" what is technically unstoppable It's already working as designed. Michael Lewellen finished lawful crowdfunding software and can't publish it. He asked DOJ if he'd be prosecuted. Their answer, in federal court: we "cannot disclaim an intent to prosecute." Finished code, sitting on a shelf. You don't need to be charged to be silenced. And SDNY isn't done with me. Prosecutors want to retry me regardless — regardless of the hung counts, regardless of Van Loon, regardless of FinCEN's own guidance. I've been fighting this for 3+ years. Legal defense at this level costs millions, and I can't do it alone. If you write code, use privacy tools, or believe publishing software isn't a crime — this is your fight too. Donate: freeromanstorm.com Every retweet helps. Every dollar goes to the defense.

FREEDOM FOR @keonne AND @SamouraiDev CODE IS NOT A CRIME! #FreeSamourai #PardonSamourai

Error rates? We dont track that.

I'm Keonne Rodriguez’s mom. He's in prison for building privacy software. Trump ordered the AG to look into his case for a pardon, but he's still locked up. We need the White House to follow through. Help a mother bring her son home: c.org/nGGgQ4SKjQ#FreeSamoura…

The sovereign free man who embraced jurisdictional arbitrage has now given way to the self styled technically illiterate plebeian who is evangelical about arbitrary data and wage slaves with a copy of the Bitcoin standard in the cubicle. Absolute cultural rot.

This but price isn’t anything to do with it for me.

10 years later and most associate CT with “crypto twitter” and think this is risky because they can’t see numbers in clear text

So those visits to the potomac officers club weren't just another panel series on the gospel of mNAV?

The greatest success story of the space is a panopticon style KYC bank accounts with extra steps.

Twice per month we are planning to give you money at the expense of the common stonk holder until the ponzi unwinds. What is the clearest way to describe this?