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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 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/

2026-02-26 22:52:16 CET

🔴Senator Tom Cotton, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has reposted a letter penned in October calling for the expansion of the PATRIOT Act and the Bank Secrecy Act to "prevent illegal aliens from opening accounts at US financial institutions."
The PATRIOT Act formalized KYC procedures for financial institutions in 2001.
Since then, no statistics have been released to confirm that KYC measures are in any way useful to stop financial crime, yet Congress continues to lobby for their expansion.
The measures verifiably lead to skyrocketing compliance costs that are rolled onto consumers, which has emerged as a leading cause for un- and underbanked citizens.
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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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2026-02-23 21:54:40 CET

🔴The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has approved the production of new reports focused on the mitigation of AML/CFT risks for "unhosted wallets" and peer-to-peer transactions. The reports are expected to be published by April of this year.
"The United States appreciates the FATF’s efforts to prevent abuse of this critical industry," the Treasury said in a statement on the FATF plenary's outcomes on Friday.
The FATF is an unelected, international body that drives global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation. Nations which deviate from FATF AML/CFT guidance are placed on black- and grey lists, cutting off access to global financial markets.
🔗 Learn more about FATF and its influence on Bitcoin:
https://www.therage.co/meet-fatf-the-financial-bullies-memberclub/

2026-02-21 23:00:57 CET

🔴The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement have issued a warning on the use of cryptocurrency payment processors and OTC desks for money laundering and sanctions evasion.
The group bases its warnings on the increase of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings related to such systems, which have risen starkly over the past ten years.
"Cryptocurrency payment processors pose significant risks and unknown threats to the integrity of the global financial system," the group concludes.
However, the group omits that the mere filing of a SAR is often not indicative of actual crime occurring. Research based on statistics released by the IRS shows that less than 0.3% of filed SARs have led to further investigation.
More SARs != more crime.
The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) is a joint operational group formed in mid-2018 to combat transnational tax crime between US, Australian, UK, Canadian, and Dutch tax authorities.
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2026-02-19 13:49:23 CET

🚨NEW: HACKERS EXPOSE AGE-VERIFICATION SOFTWARE POWERING SURVEILLANCE WEB
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, bundling financial reporting with facial recognition tech.
For the first time, they lay bare what is really behind a software serving age-verification laws – and why such technology is far from harmless.
We spoke with the researchers that exposed the software, who hope that their findings will serve as a wakeup call.
🔗 Full story: https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

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 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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2025-11-03 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 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/

2025-10-15 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/

2025-10-02 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/

2025-09-25 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/

2025-09-22 16:42:34 CEST

📢 "Pro-Bitcoin" Senator Lummis tells Semafor she no longer supports unrestricted First Amendment
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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/

2025-08-19 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 00:00:48 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 00:02:45 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/

2025-08-06 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

2025-08-02 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

2025-07-31 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.

2025-07-29 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

2025-07-28 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 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/

2025-07-17 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.
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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 01:46:09 CEST

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