Yesterday, President Trump signed a full pardon for Silk Street founder Ross Ulbricht. This was an amazing victory for the Bitcoin (and Libertarian) motion.
It proved with a while, effort and political coordination, the Bitcoin community state, to borrow a time period from Balaji Srinivasan, can facilitate actual and necessary change through the best ranges of energy on the nation-state stage.
Whereas we must always certainly take a second to have fun, we must also take note others within the Bitcoin and broader crypto house are at present going through unfair sentencing and we ought to be appearing on their behalf. These others embody the builders of Samourai Pockets, who’re at present wrongfully being charged with working an unlicensed cash transmitting enterprise.
On this case, not solely is the liberty of the builders concerned at stake however our skill to make use of the privateness instruments they’ve created.
Now we have now to do #freesamorai to make sure noncustodial wallets stay authorized! https://t.co/Jq1UDbe9dl
— Matt Corallo (@TheBlueMatt) January 22, 2025
And so this time round, allow us to proper wrongs earlier than they lead to unfair sentencing, like we noticed with Ross.
To do that, you may donate to the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund to assist fund the protection for the Samourai and Twister Money instances. Now we have to do our half to cease regulatory overreach and to guard the liberty of those that have helped to additional allow our personal through the instruments they’ve created.
