Name: The Regulator Said It Was Legal. I'm Going To Prison Anyway.
Uploaded: 2025-12-09T15:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 h 8 min 32 s
Description: 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 prosecute

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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.

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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?