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2026-03-13 17:00:06 CET

🔴Ethics disclosures reveal Tornado Cash top-prosecutor's ties to Epstein network
Ethics disclosures show SDNY top prosecutor Jay Clayton holds up to $6M in Epstein affiliated Apollo Management, along with stock in JP Morgan and Bank of America, according to a new investigation by The Lever.
Earlier this week, Clayton announced that SDNY will retry Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on sanctions evasion and money laundering conspiracy charges.
At the same time, citizens are demanding money laundering investigations into JPM and BoA over the potential enablement of Epstein's sex trafficking operation, which was in part financed by Apollo Management founder Leon Black, according to a $62M settlement agreement between Black and the US Virgin Islands.
From 2021 to 2025, Clayton served as chair of the board and independent director at Apollo Management, a private equity firm founded by Black, who has been identified as one of Epstein's top financiers and closest associates.
Clayton was appointed to the role at Apollo following Black's resignation over his ties to Epstein, with many describing Clayton's job as a 'clean up.'
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2026-03-03 16:08:36 CET

🔴The Luxembourg government is allowing a state bank to act against the International Criminal Court, the Luxembourg Times reports.
The incident is yet another example of the US extrajudicial weaponization of the global financial system against dissent.
Since 2025, the Trump administration has placed sanctions on eleven ICC judges and prosecutors who led the effort of obtaining an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
While no sanctions have been placed on the ICC directly, the Luxembourg Spuerkeess decided to close two accounts held by the ICC to avoid potential regulatory repercussions.
The sanctions are not enacted via Congressional approval but by executive order of the US president, prohibiting any US service to do business with sanctioned ICC personnel, directly limiting the ICC's operations through the cancelation of necessary services, such as email and accounting software.
While the US officially holds no authority over international banks, its position as an economic superpower can effectively lead to the exclusion from global financial markets if its orders are not followed suit.
The US was originally a signatory to the Rome Statute which established the ICC in 1998 under Bill Clinton, though the signature was never ratified.
In 2002, the US formally "unsigned" the treaty under President Bush and established the American Service-Members' Protection Act, more commonly known as The Hague Invasion Act, which prevents US agencies from granting assistance to the ICC, and gives the US president all necessary mans to prevent the prosecution of US citizens by the ICC – including military action.
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2026-03-03 09:12:53 CET

🔴An FBI Field Interview conducted as part of a federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein details how a Deutsche Bank compliance officer was terminated after raising flags over cryptocurrency activity conducted by a firm owned by Jared Kushner in 2016.
In total, the compliance officer identified over 100 Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) who appeared to be insufficiently monitored by Deutsche Bank, detailing how she was pressured to keep accounts open – including the accounts of Epstein, after finding he had been making payments to young women.
The document gives a rare glimpse into the world of so-called relationship managing, in which wealthy individuals are treated favorably by financial institutions even when flags are raised.
While regular banking customers fall victim to overly-cautious account closures, the FBI report details how individuals with more substantive financial resources are continuously cut slack in anti-money laundering procedures in order to retain their business.
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2026-03-02 15:18:39 CET

🔴The Trump administration appears to be illegally leveraging tax authorities to obtain the home addresses of immigrants, according to the Washington Post.
A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer, as WaPo reports.
By federal law, the IRS may only provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with tax records if the agency first identifies a person's address correctly.
Instead, the DHS appears to have used the information sharing agreement to obtain addresses from the IRS, with address fields left blank or filled out incompletely.
The incident marks yet another escalation in the use of financial infrastructure to achieve political ends.
DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/

2026-02-25 17:20:23 CET

🔴The Trump administration is considering an Executive Order that would require banks to collect citizenship information on customers, per the Wall Street Journal.
As such, the proposed Executive Order would deputize banks to function as defacto policing agencies to crack down on illegal immigration.
The Treasury is already pressuring banks to identify illegal immigrants and considering the potential re-underwriting of customers, as stated by Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this month.
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2026-02-25 12:11:35 CET

🔴A former Revolut employee has reportedly attempted to extort customers by threatening to leak their personal KYC data unless a ransom was paid.
The extortion attempt appears to have been targeted at a pseudonymous X account with over 650,000 followers.
Revolut has reportedly stated that no systems have been breached, and that the case is under investigation.
The case highlights yet another risk of identity verification beyond security breaches and leaks, in which internal rogue actors obtain access to individual's sensitive information.
As KYC laws are set to be expanded beyond the financial realm to ID social media users, the extortion of high-value pseudonymous individuals will likely grow into a lucrative business for criminals.
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2026-02-21 22:58:54 CET

🚨The DOJ has quietly deleted over 2,000 documents on former MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.
The collection originally featured over 10,000 documents on Ito, which is now down to ~8,000. Ito resigned from MIT in 2019 for accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein, but their relationship appears to have gone much deeper than previously disclosed.
According to his LinkedIn, Ito currently serves as President of the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, where he also directs the Center for Radical Transformation.
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2026-02-17 22:25:47 CET

It’s not every day that we post “good news” from the IRS.
But today, the Payjoin Foundation has been recognized as a 501c3 – which means you can now make tax deductible donations to fund Bitcoin privacy.
Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/payjoin-donations/

2026-02-05 16:44:58 CET

🚨NEW: REP LYNCH IS WRONG ON THE BANK SECRECY ACT
The Massachusetts Congressman claims the BSA is "highly useful" to combat terrorism. The data says otherwise.
Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/rep-lynch-bank-secrecy-act/

2026-01-29 16:44:14 CET

🚨NEW: NOTES FROM THE INSIDE
"It often feels like I am stuck in a bad dream I cannot wake from," writes Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez about his first month in FPC Morgantown.
Read the full letter 👇
https://www.therage.co/letter-4-notes-from-the-inside/

2026-01-21 15:30:10 CET

🚨NEW: NOTES FROM THE INSIDE
From sour milk to moldy burger buns, Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez describes the realities of federal incarceration.
Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/letter-3-notes-from-the-inside/

2026-01-14 18:34:36 CET

🚨NEW: THE MARKET STRUCTURE DRAFT IS DANGEROUS SLOP
Meant to include protections for developers, the draft leaves the door wide open for continued prosecution of developers and the total surveillance of non-custodial software users.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/market-structure-surveillance/

2025-12-15 22:43:10 CET

🚨 NEW: DONALD TRUMP ON PARDONING SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPER KEONNE RODRIGUEZ:
"I've heard about it, I'll look at it, you think he should be pardoned? Rodriguez, we'll look at that Pam, we'll take a look"
Full Clip👇
https://www.youtube.com/live/EfAbtXzo8Zk?t=10697s

2025-11-26 00:10:21 CET

🚨NEW: BSV BACKER CALVIN AYRE TIED UP IN WIRECARD SCANDAL
New reports identify the online gambling kingping as the "single customer" behind Wirecard's fabricated business network.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/calvin-ayre-wirecard/

2025-11-24 21:51:41 CET

🚨NEW: JP MORGAN DEBANKED JACK MALLERS. YOU COULD BE NEXT.
It's time to have an honest discussion about debanking.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/jack-mallers-debanked/

2025-11-20 00:20:08 CET

🚨NEW: WILLIAM HILL SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON, THREE YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE
People should be deterred from doing what the Samourai Wallet developers did, Judge Cote stated in court.
Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/samourai-sev-sentence/

2025-11-19 22:43:23 CET

🚨JUST IN: Samourai Wallet developer William Hill sentenced to 4 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release
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2025-11-14 20:13:11 CET

🚨NEW: EMAILS REVEAL JEFFREY EPSTEIN MONEY FINANCED BITCOIN CORE DEVELOPMENT
“Used gift funds to underwrite this which allowed us to move quickly and win this round. Thanks,” Media Lab Director Joi Ito wrote Epstein in an email titled DCI.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/epstein-bitcoin-core/

2025-11-06 22:56:34 CET

If you're still on X, join us tomorrow to discuss the sentencing of Keonne Rodriguez on spaces at 4pm eastern
If you're in NYC, join us for an in-person fireside chat from 5.30 at Pubkey
with David Z Morris and @nprofile…tcpu
https://x.com/i/spaces/1LyGBXwqvXjxN

2025-11-06 20:29:22 CET

🚨KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON, $250,000 FINE, 3 YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE
The Samourai Wallet developer will surrender to custody on December 19th. Rodriguez has the option to appeal, Judge Cote states.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/keonne-rodriguez-samourai-sentenced/

2025-11-06 18:05:56 CET

🚨 KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS, $250,000 FINE
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2025-11-06 17:10:51 CET

Today and tomorrow we are live at the sentencing of Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill of Samourai Wallet ⬇️
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2025-11-04 12:35:51 CET

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Mh ya you may wanna check ur sources on that one bud

2025-11-03 18:02:49 CET

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Their arguments affect their sentencing but thanks for this stellar legal advice

2025-11-03 17:01:22 CET

🚨NEW: US GOVERNMENT SEEKS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPERS
"I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-maximum-sentence/

2025-10-28 21:35:06 CET

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Just curious, have you read the BIP?

2025-10-28 21:00:33 CET

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Liar

2025-10-28 20:51:55 CET

💥NEW:
A pseudonymous developer credits Bitcoin Knots maintainer Luke Dashjr for a softfork proposal that could split the Bitcoin blockchain, claiming Bitcoin Core exposes users to legal risks.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/running-bitcoin-is-illegal-dashjr-chainsplit-proposal-hits-bip-repository/

2025-10-27 14:36:04 CET

🚨NEW: Posts are claiming that a ChatGPT generated AI Passport passed KYC Checks at notable cryptocurrency exchanges. That's not true, the posts author tells The Rage.
How AI Passport scares are pushing for Digital IDs👇
https://www.therage.co/ai-passport-kyc-digital-id/

2025-10-15 00:10:41 CEST

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“Victims of the pig butchering scam can just ask the Government for their money back before the funds are allocated to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.”
What “just asking the Government for your money back” looks like:
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2025-10-15 00:06:30 CEST

🚨 NEW: US WANTS TO KEEP 127,000 BTC IN LARGEST ASSET FORFEITURE IN HISTORY
The lack of advocacy for the funds to be returned to victims displays the perverse incentives birthed by the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/us-btc-forfeiture/

2025-10-14 11:43:52 CEST

Who’s ready for new blockchain astrology drama? 🙋‍♀️
New story coming soon, sign up to get it straight to your inbox 👇
https://www.therage.co/subscribe/

2025-10-13 18:45:28 CEST

🚨NEW: KYC ALL THE THINGS: IS MARKET STRUCTURE BLOWING UP?
A leaked proposal by Senate Democrats would give Treasury sweeping powers to ban non-custodial services, establishing authority over what code can be deployed, and what code can't.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/democrats-market-structure-leaked/

2025-10-09 15:20:41 CEST

💥NEW: THE US TREASURY WON'T TELL US HOW MUCH BITCOIN IT OWNS
The Freedom of Information Act does not require agencies to answer to fishing expeditions, IRS tells The Rage.
https://www.therage.co/us-treasury-bitcoin/

2025-10-02 15:07:22 CEST

Getting ready to record the first episode for our podcast tomorrow with a very special guest 👀
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2025-10-01 15:16:44 CEST

🚨NEW: ROMAN STORM FILES MOTION FOR ACQUITTAL ON ALL COUNTS
The Government failed to provide sufficient evidence of illegal conduct and would criminalize the publication of decentralized software in violation of the first amendment.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/roman-storm-acquittal/

2025-09-26 17:04:43 CEST

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Because Mechanic says having a discussion to prepare for future scenarios does not qualify as a „plan“?
Mmmh yeah no i dont think so
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2025-09-25 23:06:15 CEST

🚨LEAKED: LUKE DASHJR PLANS HARDFORK TO "SAVE BITCOIN"
Text messages show the Knots maintainer is considering a hardfork to implement a trusted multisig committee that can retrospectively alter the blockchain to remove illicit content.
We included screenshots of all relevant messages we received for you to verify what Luke proposes for yourself.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/leaked-luke-dashjr-bitcoin-hardfork/

2025-09-23 14:38:47 CEST

🚨SCOOP: It appears that the US Government has made no progress on the establishment of a Strategic Reserve, FOIA response reveals
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/foia-progress-bitcoin-reserve/

2025-09-23 13:35:54 CEST

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Why not get another hobby besides complaining on social media you loser

2025-09-22 23:07:20 CEST

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The link is in the comments jestopher
Next time maybe try DYOR before accusing us

2025-09-22 16:42:34 CEST

📢 "Pro-Bitcoin" Senator Lummis tells Semafor she no longer supports unrestricted First Amendment
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2025-09-19 17:27:39 CEST

🚨NEW: CANADA SEIZES $56M IN CUSTOMER FUNDS WITHOUT CHARGES
Authorities have "reason to believe" that TradeOgre funds stem from illicit activity, as no-KYC services are a "common tactic" to launder money. No charges have been filed.
https://www.therage.co/tradeogre-seized-canada/

2025-09-18 21:07:18 CEST

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💥 CONFIRMED: Canadian Police took down the exchange TradeOgre, announcing a $56 million dollars seizure in an op_return message
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2025-09-16 21:52:42 CEST

🚨NEW: DID CANADA JUST ROB AN OG EXCHANGE OF $32,000,000?
The crypto exchange TradeOgre has been drained for Millions of Dollars. An op_return transaction claims that the funds are now in custody of the Canadian Government.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/tradeogre-theft/

2025-09-11 16:24:35 CEST

🚨SCOOP: US GOVERNMENT TO BRING PATRIOT ACT TO DIGITAL ASSETS
FinCEN Director reveals Treasury is finalizing ban on privacy tools, Representatives revive Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/us-government-to-bring-patriot-act-to-digital-assets/

2025-09-10 17:07:50 CEST

🚨NEW: The Treasury is working on reforming the Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN Director states
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/bsa-reform/

2025-09-09 14:06:47 CEST

🚨JUST IN: FATF, UN, and Interpol call on Governments to strengthen partnerships with blockchain analytics firms
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2025-09-05 16:48:11 CEST

🚨JUST IN: Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Report removes DeFi as standalone category
DeFi described as "niche behavior" with "much smaller share of overall user activity" compared to centralized platforms
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2025-09-04 22:51:22 CEST

🔴 Financial Crime Detection startup IVIX, founded by Matan Fattal, a former member of Israel's notorious military intelligence Unit 8200, and Doron Passov, a former member of the IDF's secretive Unit 81 tasked with building custom espionage software, raises $60M Series B
IVIX "scans the web for signs of illicit financial activity," collecting data "using scrapers powered by large language models" sourced from "blockchains, short-term rental platforms, e-commerce marketplaces and other sources."
IVIX has developed software for the Government of Canada and the State of California. IVIX claims that it can identify entities behind illicit activity "with 99% accuracy."
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2025-08-27 18:04:01 CEST

🚨NEW: DeFi Education Fund gathers largest industry coalition to protect developers
Over 100 signatories state that they will not support a market structure bill that does not include protections for non-custodial services.
Fully story👇
https://www.therage.co/defi-education-fund-coalition-to-protect-developers/

2025-08-21 16:35:27 CEST

🚨NEW: The Treasury is seeking comments on the implementation of digital identities for DeFi, where smart contracts could automatically check for a credential before executing a user's transaction.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/treasury-digital-identity-defi/

2025-08-19 20:08:56 CEST

🚨NEW: Economists at the Bank of International Settlements propose banning any coin that has passed through a no-KYC wallet from regulated services to enable a culture of self-policing
Full Story 👇
https://www.therage.co/bank-of-international-settlements-kyc-non-custodial-wallets/

2025-08-14 00:13:07 CEST

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2025-08-14 00:00:48 CEST

🚨 UPDATE: Google has clarified that non-custodial wallets are not meant to be in scope of its Play Store policy in response to our reporting.
The policy will be revised accordingly.
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2025-08-13 20:04:04 CEST

🚨 New Google Play Store policy forces AML/KYC on non-custodial wallets in the US, effectively bans non-custodial wallet developers from Play Store in EU
Full Story👇
https://www.therage.co/google-play-store-ban-wallets/

2025-08-12 00:03:47 CEST

🚨JUST IN: Parties in US v. Storm ask for exclusion of time on post-trial motions to decide whether prosecution will retry charges
Potential motion to retry convicted charge possible
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2025-08-12 00:02:45 CEST

Ethereum Core developer Federico Carrone was arrested at passport controls in Turkey over his contributions to a paper that assessed privacy on Ethereum and Tornado Cash.
Full story 👇
https://www.therage.co/developer-arrested-over-tornado-cash-research/

2025-08-10 23:44:56 CEST

🚨 Ethereum developer working on Zero Knowledge says he has been detained in Turkey
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2025-08-08 13:52:55 CEST

Gmgm, we’re participating in a game called #sathunterz that teaches people how hard it is to crack a bitcoin seedphrase.
Follow the hashtag (here and on X), find as many words as you can, and win 800k sats 👇
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2025-08-06 19:36:27 CEST

More post-verdict observations on Roman Storm, including Judge Failla's decision not to detain him ahead of sentencing; and Failla's comments on the path to challenging the Money Transmission conviction.
https://blossom.primal.net/bd07994eeb71198627f2ae64ac56afe5f1e816c958c73f9c84b5e8098de1d45e.mp4

2025-08-06 19:11:12 CEST

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🚨UPDATE: Count 3, Sanctions evasion, is also inconclusive. The Government will decide whether it will retry Storm on money laundering and sanctions evasion.
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2025-08-06 19:10:03 CEST

🚨UPDATE on the verdict:
https://blossom.primal.net/7a077c7401921410fa2d3e337611a5c9185f9c6dc408d146b0249eca0ee26928.mp4

2025-08-06 19:07:31 CEST

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🚨UPDATE: Jury also not unanimous on count 3, sanctions evasion. Government will decide whether it will retry charges one and three.

2025-08-06 18:36:56 CEST

COUNT 1, MONEY LAUNDERING: NOT UNANIMOUS
COUNT 2, 1960: GUILTY
COUNT 3, SANCTIONS EVASION: NOT GUILTY

2025-08-06 16:04:36 CEST

🚨JUST IN
Jury in trial against Roman Storm says it's deadlocked on some charges. Court asked jury to reconsider – if deadlock remains, the court will accept a partial verdict. Government may re-try remaining charges.

2025-08-06 10:27:32 CEST

How many hops makes a criminal?
Today the jury asked whether sanctions also apply to intermediary addresses between a sanctioned wallet and Tornado Cash.
An important question, as there seems to be quite a few intermediaries in the Government's tracing testimony.
Full story 👇
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https://www.therage.co/jury-questions-tracing-and-venue-in-roman-storm-trial/

2025-08-05 23:42:05 CEST

Jury deliberations continued today, with prosecution and defense waging trench warfare over every word and document that might shape the verdict.
Today, one question from the jury took both legal teams nearly two hours to address 👇
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2025-08-05 13:53:29 CEST

"We should take concrete steps to protect people’s ability not only to communicate privately, but to transfer value privately," says SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/sec-commissioner-hester-pierce-slams-bank-secrecy-act/

2025-08-02 20:06:51 CEST

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We discuss that + appeal process in the pod

2025-08-02 19:49:01 CEST

This Sunday. Everything you need to know about the criminal trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm.
With Amanda Tuminelli, Taylor Monahan, Molly White, and Tim Clancy, hosted by David Z Morris 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10GfBE8n4s

2025-08-01 00:29:49 CEST

It's the third week in the criminal trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, and we continue to wait for a verdict.
Today, the jury requested transcripts, had questions about venue, and seemed rather eager to go home.
Full story:
https://www.therage.co/roman-storm-no-verdict/

2025-07-31 21:04:27 CEST

🚨JUST IN:
No verdict today in US v. Storm. The jury is being sent home and deliberations will continue Monday morning.

2025-07-31 20:24:41 CEST

While you're waiting for the Storm verdict, it may make sense to take some time to understand what the White House outlined on financial privacy in its Digital Assets Report.
Hint: it's not pretty.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/white-house-digital-assets-report-financial-privacy-primary-money-laundering/

2025-07-31 19:18:32 CEST

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2025-07-31 18:56:45 CEST

We are still awaiting the jury's return with a verdict in US v. Storm.
So far this morning the jury has made two requests for clarifications or further information, including a request for documents at around 11:30amET.
The jury is deliberating and likely to be at least for another hour, so there's a good chance we will keep waiting.
One of their questions sent to the court touched on the grand jury evidence for venue, which is beyond their scope, but perhaps a source of hope for acquittal. 👇
https://blossom.primal.net/3e173babd7e79cc0fa715ae822ce39b5d8380803046f17f49f1670495855b72b.mp4

2025-07-31 00:20:01 CEST

“Privacy became the cover story for Tornado Cash, not the goal,” the prosecution said in closing arguments today.
The main question now facing the jury: what was Storm really thinking?
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/the-storm-jurys-dilemma-was-crime-the-goal-all-along/

2025-07-30 18:18:15 CEST

In a major win for DOJ, Samourai Wallet developers have plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission.
The charge had been heavily disputed, described as an unclear application of the law.
The developers face fines and up to five years in prison. Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-developers-plead-guilty-to-unlicensed-money-transmission/

2025-07-29 20:00:21 CEST

🚨JUST IN
Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill have notified the court of a change of plea – expected to plead guilty. Hearings scheduled for tomorrow 10:00 and 10.30
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2025-07-29 00:20:08 CEST

Do corporate accounts not work on this protocol or are you all just really fucking lazy reposters

2025-07-29 00:17:47 CEST

💥 Update:
The third week of the trial of Roman Storm kicked off with defense testimony that rebutted government tracing experts, and a Coinbase employee who used Tornado Cash to make a donation to Urkaine. 👇
https://blossom.primal.net/61eacf40891885976f691d80ba5b532e984f377b117074a2dd9ed2566d25b5cc.mp4

2025-07-28 21:03:11 CEST

🚨UPDATE:
Chainalysis witness may plead the 5th to avoid self-incrimination following a phone call with the Government.
This is after SDNY openly threatened defense witness Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly Capital, allegedly to stop him from testifying.
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2025-07-24 20:18:27 CEST

🚨JUST IN:
IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH

2025-07-24 00:08:54 CEST

UPDATE in US v. STORM: IRS blockchain tracer Stephan George today testified that he traced 9.7 ETH derived from the defrauding of Hanfeng Lin to Tornado Cash using Chainalysis and TRM Labs tools.
Also, prosecutors indulge in some light heckling of David Z Morris 👇
https://blossom.primal.net/ff2f78d339a805e528baab3e2736229a903371ee85ee32b7c66149bc50151016.mp4

2025-07-22 00:42:16 CEST

Today in the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, Storm’s defense team raised the possibility of a mistrial if no foundation could be found for the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, Hanfeng "Katie" Lin.
The victim of a pig butchering scam, Lin engaged a recovery service that directed her to contact Tornado Cash about lost funds.
But an FBI forensic tracer who has testified for nearly a full day was not instructed by prosecutors to trace Lin’s money, and experts have raised questions about whether any of it actually went to Tornado Cash.
If it did not, Lin’s testimony would have to be stricken and, according to defense attorney David Patton, the entire trial might have to be restarted from scratch.
Full story👇
https://www.therage.co/tornado-cash-mistrial-hangfeng-lin/

2025-07-22 00:40:58 CEST

Update from U.S. v. Storm 👇
Roman Storm's defense team has raised the spectre of a mistrial after an FBI tracing expert failed to confirm that the prosecution's first witness' stolen funds had in fact been sent to Tornado Cash.
https://blossom.primal.net/1108ca2b2d9f3a561ee9b290ff7729ce65a609a0252d71fc0dea6b91f496c9df.mp4

2025-07-17 21:12:03 CEST

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2025-07-17 17:33:15 CEST

We're about to start the second full day of proceedings in US v. Storm.
Trial observers care passionately about the outcome. Meet
Tim Clancy (@_Enoch), who brought a printed copy of the PGP code to court - the document that established free speech protections for code.
https://blossom.primal.net/04c9482921ddcec08113b2a697f4f586a17c4d5933464c8ba4e4b683e56228f5.mp4

2025-07-17 03:44:01 CEST

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2025-07-16 21:29:43 CEST

Scoop: At Roman Storm's trial, jurors are crying and punching walls. One juror may have to be excused, but the court is concerned that others might follow.
"Right now they're being fed with snacks, [...] we're trying to keep them happy."👇
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2025-07-16 20:09:57 CEST

New: US Marshal Service merely holds ~29,000 BTC
Here's the full list of holdings obtained via FOIA request: https://www.therage.co/btc-held-by-the-us-marshal-service/

2025-07-16 02:29:45 CEST

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for nostr or bitcoin?

2025-07-16 02:16:36 CEST

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2025-07-16 01:46:09 CEST

I still don't know how to setup the zappers and at this point I'm afraid to ask

2025-07-16 01:44:10 CEST

First actual day of the trial is over. The Government's first witness testified that she sent ~$200k to a shady trading platform via a guy she met on WhatsApp.
Tomorrow, they'll likely argue that somehow that is Roman's fault 👇
https://www.therage.co/tornado-cash-trial-scam-hack/
What's interesting about this is that in a hearing last June, the judge had asked the prosecution whether putting Storm on trial for building a software tool would be the same as prosecuting the developers of WhatsApp because criminals used it.
After today's witness statement, it sounds like there is rampant fraud on WhatsApp, WhatsApp developers did nothing to stop it, and they're the ones who should be charged for conspiring to defraud poor Katie Lin.
Pathetic, frankly.
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