Without non-custodial wallets, cryptocurrencies have no meaning or purpose.

Despite the chaos of the last few days and the uncertainty that lies ahead, we have to move forward and keep building.

We’re testing out our new LSP service with multiple wallet providers. We hope that it will be used by many users.

Can’t wait for you to get your hands on it.

Great to get the opportunity to discuss the intricacies of the Samourai situation and the potential ramifications on the rest of the industry.

Privacy is not a crime.
FREE SAMOURAI 🌀

'These are people who’ve built a powerful privacy tool that never took custody, that fit every regulation...now are facing 25 years of jail time and a life that's ruined because of drastic and tyrannical overreach by the government.'
-Seth For Privacy | #FreeSamourai WBD807

So vital to get the word out there on this, grateful to What Bitcoin Did, Peter McCormack🏴‍☠️, and Danny Knowles for helping to do just that with this episode.

Great episode to share with friends and family to help them understand what's going on both technically and legally.

All the attacks on Bitcoin privacy have made it more pressing than ever to educate people in the space on Monero and giving them the *option* to make a well-informed decision on the best tool for them.

New to Monero? Dive in 👇

Lots of media reports equating coinjoins to mixers. Dangerous, and could play right into the DoJ's arms. Coinjoins and Mixers are fundamentally different technologies.

'But coinjoins are a type of mixer' – No. There is no mixing going on in coinjoins. Literally zero. nada.

sentrum v0.1.9 released:
*Improved multsig wallet support and documentation
*ntfy action no longer defaults to use 'sentrum' as a topic name. (thanks Norbert ⚡️ )
github.com/sommerfelddev/…

FYI the 10 years of clear guidance from FinCEN that says that money transmission in crypto requires control over the funds is irrelevant because pans transfer heat and usb cables transfer bits without controlling heat and bits.

Can now restore Samourai Wallet directly into Cake Wallet, with all proper derivation paths etc!

Thanks to #Bitcoin Core 27.0, which enabled v2transport by default, we're getting close to one in ten Bitcoin nodes supporting P2P encryption! 🚀🚀🚀

Added network service metrics on 21.ninja to keep track of progress: 21.ninja/reachable-node…

NDAX Learning how to self custody is a critical step in securing your #bitcoin from exchanges that could remove the withdrawal button at a moment’s notice.

At PubKey we’ve partnered with FOUNDATION to provide ongoing education on this subject.

If you can’t make it to one of

So the Monero community raised 2920 XMR, $350k in four days. and I thought Monero users were supposed to be 'poor'.

Please please please take a few minutes out of your day and read this, and then *share it with friends, family, and coworkers outside of our little crypto bubble.*

These cases are a vital battleground, and shifting popular sentiment is a way we can help.

Show everyone the

To users concerned about feerates for closing transactions: we periodically consolidate and bump them. No action is required after closing the channel.

You can also CPFP from your side, if you know what that means and are in a rush.

Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Keonne Rodriguez Pleads Not Guilty, Released on $1M Bond coindesk.com/policy/2024/04…

It's one thing to do 'regulation by enforcement,' as we've arguably seen from the SEC. It's even worse to see the DOJ engage in regulation by criminal prosecution.

That's exactly what is happening with the unlicensed money transmission charges against Tornado Cash and Samourai

Tornado, Samourai, and a Warning:

In a surprising and concerning shift, the DOJ has targeted non-custodial crypto wallet developers for unlicensed money transmission, which starkly deviates from longstanding U.S. policy.

This abrupt move, seen in recent charges against

In the US, you can run a perfectly legitimate business transmitting millions in sex trafficking proceeds. Building privacy services is where the US Government draws the line.