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[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

Talk about an easy way to do inexpensive, quick, and secure transactions on #Algorand

✅ Real users.
✅ Real use case.
✅ Real good cause.

[Algorand Foundation @AlgoFoundation]

📱 @HesabPay_ is a digital payment platform designed to address financial inclusion and payment needs in Afghanistan.

Today, the video spotlighting HesabPay debuts at the Moore Conference in Dubai.

Solutions That Scale are built on Algorand!

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@KayBlockchain Followers are overrated 😉

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@mochanerd @Xxiled1 An exploit… in the supply chain 😁 but you’re correct, I probably should have been clearer

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@bmartins_ @AlgoFamily Ty for your contributions, Bruno!

[Xxiled.compx @Xxiled1]

I don’t know if I’m being a bit sensitive but seeing various accounts using PQ Attest in their posts without crediting or tagging me is kind of annoying.

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@PMDBT Wen alpha arcade iOS app?

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@WieldMoney Wield

[FrugalBC @frugalbc]

I asked the person running Algo Bahrat how many transactions, new wallets and successful companies came out of the program.

Silence.

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@StaciW_DC @Mr_Algosla Thanks for all your work, Staci!

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

One thing before I start: everything in this post is public information from my own docket. None of it is new, and I'm not revealing anything you can't already find in the court filings yourself.

The retrial just got pushed to April 26, 2027. The order came down today (Dkt. 300). My acquittal motion is still sitting there, undecided. I honestly don't know when this ends.

Prosecutors are supposed to protect American interests and go after people who broke the law. A jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts against me. And still SDNY won't stop, because this case was never just about me. It's about setting an example.

Don't take my word for it. Tara La Morte, the chief of SDNY's Illicit Finance and Money Laundering Unit, said it herself at a New York City Bar Association event (Law360, Feb. 23, 2024; filed on my docket as Doc. 25-2):

"We want the industry to take notice."

"What we're trying to do is sort of bring the industry into compliance, and I think Tornado Cash is an example of that."

An example. Out of a developer who wrote code.

At that same event, her deputy praised the government's blockchain-tracing partner, Chainalysis.

Here is what they didn't tell the audience. All of it is from the public docket in my case.

According to the trial transcripts, Chainalysis was running its OWN Tornado Cash relayer, and earning fees on the transactions flowing through it.

- Chainalysis's own lawyers admitted to "a relayer node that Chainalysis operated"; my subpoena sought documents on Tornado Cash relayer(s) "used from March to August 2022." (Dkt. 211)
- In open court, the prosecutor said it plainly: "I think the parties agree as to that part of the testimony, that the Chainalysis relayer earned fees." Same hearing: "there's zero evidence that the defendant was in any way aware that Chainalysis was running a relayer." (Dkt. 259, July 25, 2025)

So the company that helped trace my "criminal" transactions was itself profiting from Tornado Cash transactions, while I was prosecuted over software I helped create.

And when my lawyers subpoenaed them to testify?

- Chainalysis moved to quash. (Dkt. 211)
- The government backed them: "Your Honor, we agree with the position outlined in the motion." (Dkt. 255)
- The night before, prosecutors called Chainalysis's counsel. The judge asked point-blank: "Did you let them know that they were potentially subject to investigation or prosecution?" The answer: "We have discussed at a high level some of the issues surrounding the relayer with Chainalysis." (Dkt. 259)
- The Chainalysis witness took the Fifth. My lawyers learned about that call only afterward, from Chainalysis's own lawyer. (Dkt. 263)

The jury never heard any of it.

This spring, at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, something happened that I still can't quite believe. The Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, and the FBI Director, Kash Patel, sat on a panel called "Code is Free Speech."

Think about that. The two top law enforcement officials in the country. Blanche told thousands of developers: if you're a coder and you're not the one committing the crime, "you are not going to be investigated and not going to be charged." He said the last administration's crypto cases were "outrageous attacks on the industry." Patel praised "the Chainalysises of the world" as FBI partners.

And when the moderator pointed at the elephant in the room, my case, Tornado Cash, Roman Storm, the Acting Attorney General called it a "lingering case" they are "continuing to deal with."

So here is my hypothetical question. If code is free speech, why am I still being prosecuted for writing it? And if the Chainalysises of the world are the partners, the same Chainalysis that ran its own Tornado Cash relayer and earned fees from Tornado Cash users, while I never did, why is it off the hook?

They made an example out of a developer for writing code. Their own vendor ran the same infrastructure, pocketed the fees, and got a phone call instead of a prosecution.

Sources 👇👇👇

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@LoafPickle @JHoleCreates Anything we need to do for our wallets?

[Robinhood @RobinhoodApp]

We have a couple merch boxes looking for a new home. Reply and we may send you one 👇

[Algorand @Algorand]

The Coldcard hack is a painful reminder: single points of failure can kill high-value wallets.

Algorand has native multisig, with no smart contract needed. @PeraAlgoWallet's new Shared Accounts make it simple: add participant wallets, set a threshold such as 2-of-3, done.

No single key, compromised or not, can move funds alone.

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

Has it been that long already? I signed up for @X shortly after I began my journey in the @Algorand ecosystem.

It’s been 5 years and I’m still here, albeit quieter and battle-worn. Here is to another 5 years of algorand:native HODLing

#MyXAnniversary

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@pact_fi @AlgoFoundation @Algorand @algodevs @StaciW_DC Too big brain for me, sounds cool doh

[🥖LoafPickle🥒 @LoafPickle]

It's my job to drive crypto adoption and I can't even convince myself to use it for payments.

Customers lose 3-8% on/off-ramping. Credit cards pay them back 1.5-5%. We need to talk about this.

New post 👇
https://t.co/cMza2jEgkW

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@PeraAlgoWallet Debit card (US), privacy txns function (like the Hermes vault that closed down)

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

Best number via @FolksFinance

[TheOwl.algo @AlgoTheOwl]

@PeraAlgoWallet @algerstmehn @joyride_algo I want to try but the beta app from TestFlight will replace the current app and I didn’t want that