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The government literally hosted a panel arguing that “code is speech” while still prosecuting Roman Storm, Roman Sterlingov, Keonne Rodriguez, and Bill Hill. You can’t celebrate open source in theory while criminalizing developers in practice.

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LIVE --- Roman Storm Speaks 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️ developer Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ faces decades in prison, after being arrested for creating open-source privacy tools on Ethereum His case could define - Whether code is speech - If developers are liable for open source code - If Americans have a right to digital privacy Bankless has donated $25k in the past to support Roman's defense. Today, we are donating an additional $25k, to ensure that financial privacy is protected, and open-source software developers are not persecuted. We hope others will join us in donate to Roman Storm's defense. Link below. Hear directly from Roman and his lawyer in this interview 👀

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Bankless

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When the cameras left, the cages stayed locked. Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht. The government said the rest were coming. They never came. Seven people are still locked up for writing code and teaching people how to use digital cash. Let me be specific about who they are: Ian Freeman ran the Bitcoin embassy in Keene, New Hampshire. Eight years for teaching people to use digital cash. Roman Sterlingov got twelve and a half years on a black-box verdict in the Bitcoin Fog case. His lawyers still can't fully explain what the evidence was. Roman Storm wrote the Tornado Cash contract. He's looking at forty years. Retrial in the fall. Keonne Rodriguez built the Samourai wallet. They arrested him on Christmas Eve. William Lonergan Hill was sixty-seven when they caged him for writing privacy software. Four years. Lisbon to a cell. Ray Youssef banked the unbanked through Paxful. Deported. Schools in Africa bear his name. Seven people. Code. No victims you can name. America says it wants to lead in crypto. You cannot cage your builders and lead anything. Every one of these prosecutions is a message to every developer on earth: write privacy software and we will come for you. Code is free speech. The surveillance state is telling you it disagrees. Pardon them all! Mrs. ₿onnie Freeman Free Talk Live Mark Edge Keonne Rodriguez lauren emily Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing Tor Ekeland Mike Hassard Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ Ray Youssef

When the cameras left, the cages stayed locked. Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht. The government said the rest were coming. They never came. Seven people are still locked up for writing code and teaching people how to use digital cash. Let me be specific about who they are: Ian Freeman ran the Bitcoin embassy in Keene, New Hampshire. Eight years for teaching people to use digital cash. Roman Sterlingov got twelve and a half years on a black-box verdict in the Bitcoin Fog case. His lawyers still can't fully explain what the evidence was. Roman Storm wrote the Tornado Cash contract. He's looking at forty years. Retrial in the fall. Keonne Rodriguez built the Samourai wallet. They arrested him on Christmas Eve. William Lonergan Hill was sixty-seven when they caged him for writing privacy software. Four years. Lisbon to a cell. Ray Youssef banked the unbanked through Paxful. Deported. Schools in Africa bear his name. Seven people. Code. No victims you can name. America says it wants to lead in crypto. You cannot cage your builders and lead anything. Every one of these prosecutions is a message to every developer on earth: write privacy software and we will come for you. Code is free speech. The surveillance state is telling you it disagrees. Pardon them all! Mrs. ₿onnie Freeman Free Talk Live Mark Edge Keonne Rodriguez lauren emily Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing Tor Ekeland Mike Hassard Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ Ray Youssef

Aaron Day

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Code is free speech in Las Vegas. In a federal courtroom in Manhattan, code is forty years in a cage. That is the whole story of Roman Storm, and I put it to music. He came to this country from Russia with $500 in his pocket. Odd jobs. Learned the language. Taught himself to write software. Built a company on nights he didn't sleep. The immigrant success story we are told this nation is made of. Then he wrote privacy code. Open source. He published it, the way you publish a book. He asked lawyers first. They told him it was legal, because it is legal. On August 23, 2023, around six in the morning, a SWAT team surrounded his home. Rifles up. His three-year-old daughter awake in the house while armed federal agents pointed weapons at her father's head. Not for stealing. Not for hacking. Not for touching a single dollar of anyone's money. He never held your funds. He could not hold them if he tried. The code has no operator. The address is zero. It runs on its own, on every node, in every country, right now, while its author stands trial. Here is the part they do not want you to sit with. They sanctioned his protocol. Then a federal court said they had no right to. Then Treasury quietly delisted it. The government reversed itself on the code, and then it kept prosecuting the man who wrote it. The FBI Director stood on a stage in Vegas and called code free speech. His own Justice Department wrote a memo saying stop prosecuting developers for what their users do. Then they walked past their own memo and came after Roman anyway. They convicted him on one count. The jury hung on the rest. A normal government takes the hint. This one is retrying him on October 26. Forty years for writing software you can still download today. This was never about Tornado Cash. It is about whether writing code can be a crime. In 1999, Bernstein v. DOJ said source code is protected speech. If that dies with Roman, no developer in America is safe. The chilling effect is not a side effect. It is the point. They pardoned others. They cut deals for others. Roman they kept on the docket, because he was effective, and because privacy is the one thing the surveillance state cannot allow. So I wrote him a song. The prosecution is theater. The code is permanent. Free Roman Storm. Watch it. Share it. The loop keeps running fine. Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ vitalik.eth Enemies of The State Angela McArdle

Code is free speech in Las Vegas. In a federal courtroom in Manhattan, code is forty years in a cage. That is the whole story of Roman Storm, and I put it to music. He came to this country from Russia with $500 in his pocket. Odd jobs. Learned the language. Taught himself to write software. Built a company on nights he didn't sleep. The immigrant success story we are told this nation is made of. Then he wrote privacy code. Open source. He published it, the way you publish a book. He asked lawyers first. They told him it was legal, because it is legal. On August 23, 2023, around six in the morning, a SWAT team surrounded his home. Rifles up. His three-year-old daughter awake in the house while armed federal agents pointed weapons at her father's head. Not for stealing. Not for hacking. Not for touching a single dollar of anyone's money. He never held your funds. He could not hold them if he tried. The code has no operator. The address is zero. It runs on its own, on every node, in every country, right now, while its author stands trial. Here is the part they do not want you to sit with. They sanctioned his protocol. Then a federal court said they had no right to. Then Treasury quietly delisted it. The government reversed itself on the code, and then it kept prosecuting the man who wrote it. The FBI Director stood on a stage in Vegas and called code free speech. His own Justice Department wrote a memo saying stop prosecuting developers for what their users do. Then they walked past their own memo and came after Roman anyway. They convicted him on one count. The jury hung on the rest. A normal government takes the hint. This one is retrying him on October 26. Forty years for writing software you can still download today. This was never about Tornado Cash. It is about whether writing code can be a crime. In 1999, Bernstein v. DOJ said source code is protected speech. If that dies with Roman, no developer in America is safe. The chilling effect is not a side effect. It is the point. They pardoned others. They cut deals for others. Roman they kept on the docket, because he was effective, and because privacy is the one thing the surveillance state cannot allow. So I wrote him a song. The prosecution is theater. The code is permanent. Free Roman Storm. Watch it. Share it. The loop keeps running fine. Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ vitalik.eth Enemies of The State Angela McArdle

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