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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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Loren | Bitcoin Today6 ay önce

We talked about this today @leamuirleyn @keonne @BitcoinToday__

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pseudo (solo, lvlr | pirate arc)6 ay önce

Yes they are mfers

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Crypto Hustler3 ay önce

Words don’t match actions in practice

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Simpleton20256 ay önce

Thankfully governments are painting themselves into irrelevant corners. This is why you never give up weapons for government claims of safety. Their days are numbered whether people realize it yet is another thing.

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Sasha Hodder6 ay önce

🙏🙏

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PunkXBT3 ay önce

feels obvious now but someone had to prove it

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Eugene Smarts2 ay önce

the legal risk turns on whether publishing code gets reframed as operating a service

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oh, but they can. The government can talk out of both sides of its mouth anytime it wants to. That’s why being on the right side of bitcoin history matters. And the Core chain has chosen to throw its lot in with the suits and big government actors, which means the Core chain continues to operate at the whim of the suits. The cartel that controls your chain isn’t going to do anything too aggressive too quickly, but make no mistake, you lot are the frog in the pot and the water is going to keep getting warmer. You can rest assured that what they are bent on doing is eventually making it illegal for individual citizens to run a bitcoin node. I assure you that is coming down the pike. Only “trusted government partners“ such as Strategy, Blackrock, Coinbase, etc. will be allowed to run bitcoin nodes, and only they will have any say as to what is actually written into consensus. Only when this happens will you realize you lot picked the wrong horse.

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developers will design for permission and surveillance when legal uncertainty becomes an engineering constraint

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BSV is Bitcoin

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perhaps bitcoiners are slowly (albeit very late though) realizing they’ve been duped by establishment propaganda centering around “speech” and “freedom”…

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BSV Time5 ay önce

BSV is Bitcoin

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yeah that contradiction is exactly why devs are nervous tbh open source talk doesn’t match enforcement right now

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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

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