In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Frank Corva and David Z. Morris (journalist at The Rage) crack open a few cold ones with host Thomas Pacchia and pregame in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about the Samourai Wallet trial verdict:
- Why the DOJ dropped money-laundering charges against the devs but still pushed for a max sentence under “unlicensed money transmission”
- How Keonne Rodriguez's handwritten letter advocating for his innocence actually... backfired?
- The bipartisan war on privacy tech and why lip-service support from Washington D.C. doesn't protect developers
- How Samurai’s own rhetoric (i.e. marketing to hackers and oligarchs) became the prosecution’s strongest evidence
- And what this all means for open-source builders: decentralize early, lawyer up, watch your language (even in group chats you think are "encrypted" and "private"), and more
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