Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Lays Bare Prison Ordeal as Crypto Privacy Fight Heats Up Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet—a Bitcoin privacy tool—has shared a raw, personal account of his first day in a US federal prison camp, where he’s serving a five-year sentence over charges tied to operating a crypto mixing protocol. Published by The […]
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Trump Considers Pardon for Samourai Wallet’s Keonne Rodriguez in Crypto Privacy Clash President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm in the cryptocurrency world by hinting at a potential pardon for Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, after his conviction for running an unlicensed money-transmitting business. This surprising statement, made during a White House exchange, comes […]
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Bitcoin Privacy Crackdown: Samourai Wallet’s Keonne Rodriguez Hit with Maximum Sentence Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, has been slammed with a five-year prison sentence—the maximum allowed—in a US federal case that’s rattling the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world. On November 6, 2025, the gavel dropped, sending a chilling message to developers crafting privacy tools in […]
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