I spoke with a number of politicians in recent weeks. They all see Bitcoin as a valuable shop and believe that US citizens have the right to keep their keys private.
I cannot say that it is not nice to hear the elected officials of the United States express these opinions and even propose invoices that would encode the pro-bitcoin legislation in law. It is certainly refreshing, especially after the political antagonism that the bitcoiners and the Bitcoin industry have endured under the Biden administration.
Having said that, there is still work to do and most of that work implies our right to transition with Bitcoin privately.
One of the best privacy conservation tools we have in the Bitcoin base level are Bitcoin mixers, which help users with anonymous transactions.
And one of the best known mixers was the Samourai portfolio, which allowed users to mix their bitcoin in an unwelcome way. That is, the developers and the maintenancers of the wallet have never touched the private keys of users.
This software was closed at the beginning of last year, however, when the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) pressed the accusations against the developers of Samourai, including conspiracy to manage an without license without license that transmits activities and conspiracy to commit accusations of money laundering. (Tornado Cash developers, open source mixing software distributed on Ethereum, are facing similar charges.)
Some politicians, Including Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have as Out in Support of the Samourai Developers, Litter to the former Us Attorney General, The Honorable Merick Garland, in Which They Outlined That the Developers Clearly Did Not operated in Money Transmitting business as for the definition of such a business in Fincen Guidance from 2019. (With that Said, Senator Lummis Has Also co -author of a bill in which he asks the Treasury of the United States to “conduct a study on the fighting of transactions of anonymous resources such as the mixing mixers”, but I am divagando.)
Mixers are incredibly important for human rights activists who need to maintain their anonymity when they send and receive funds and for ordinary people who appreciate transactional privacy.
Therefore, we must bring this problem to the attention of politicians, since many are not familiar with it, so we hope to have more than them in defense of the developers of Samourai and see the importance of preserving the right of US citizens to use mixers.
For this reason, I am asking you to use the letter of letter published by my colleague Shinobi at the end of this piece to write your representatives.
Just as we gathered to free Ross and to protect the right to self -custody, we must gather in support of transactional privacy.
This is something that I, the political correspondent for this publication, cannot do alone. I need your help. So please follow this invitation to action and inform your representatives about it so that when I have a conversation with them in this regard, they have a certain understanding of the problem.