Samourai wallet News

A Washington think tank and prominent Bitcoiners say jailing the Samourai Wallet developers for an “unlicensed money transmitter” conspiracy criminalizes non-custodial code.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong credited the company’s acquisition of Iron Fish in March for driving the effort.

Samourai Wallet co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill say they’ll change their not guilty plea relating to charges tied to their crypto mixing service.

Federal prosecutors have denied claims that they suppressed advice that the crypto mixer didn't need a license.

Lawyers for Samourai Wallet’s founders claim prosecutors hid for over a year and a half that the Treasury told them the crypto mixer likely didn’t need a license.

Lawyers for Samourai Wallet say prosecutors are determining whether to drop the case against the crypto mixer's executives after the Justice Department nixed its crypto team.

According to the website, Ashigaru uses CoinJoin and other mechanisms to shield users from analytical heuristics and tracking.

The seizure of the Samourai Wallet website and the indictment of its founders might have implications for other privacy-preserving self-custodial tools.

Ethereum privacy protocol Railgun contributor Alan Scott Jr. says U.S. regulators and government agencies don’t get enough credit for genuinely “trying to understand” crypto.

The terms of Keonne Rodriguez’s bail prevent him from engaging in “any cryptocurrency transactions, directly or indirectly,” without prior approval from the court.