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We carried it all so well, but the ideas held no water

[Keonne Rodriguez @keonne]

I am writing from FPC Morgantown prison in West Virginia. It has been about 5 months since I first surrendered myself in December, and I will be honest, the prospect of a Presidential pardon is very low. There was some hope during the Bitcoin 2026 conference, but that has now come and gone, and one must come to terms with the fact that I am simply a federal prisoner without money, power, or influence, and I will serve my full sentence. It will be years before I can even attempt to rebuild my life. Which is why I am now writing this appeal to you all now. Things are dire and we need your help.

Lauren and I need your help desperately. More than ever before. We have over $2 Million of debt due to legal fees. We have a $250k fine the judge levied against us. Every day I get letters and calls from anxious lawyers looking to be paid. Or the DOJ demanding I start making payments on my fine. Perhaps it was denial or delusion, but I had hoped to do what I have always done and dig myself out of this hole myself - but with the reality of serving a full sentence that is not possible. I hate to ask for your help in this way but we are entirely out of options. We need to pay off these legal bills and other debts accrued attempting to defend myself. We desperately need your help. Now.

For 10 years Bill and I built and published open source code and tools for Bitcoin users. Those same tools and code are what the government says were criminal. The tools and code still exist, they are out there right now and always will be. The creators however are locked away in Federal prison. The creators are the ones whose lives have been decimated. The creators are the ones who have been financially wiped out. The creators are the ones who desperately need you now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 . We have to get this albatross from around our neck.

Samourai had well over 100,000 users. These users pushed over 2 billion dollars through our open source tools. We need those users and any bitcoiner who appreciates the work that we put into this industry for over a decade to help us now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 right now.

If you require a private address please DM my wife @leamuirleyn and she will provide one. Please do not delay. Time is of the essence. Please help us.

- Keonne

[Gabriel Kurman @GabrielKurman]

Thanks @countbtc for sharing this with me 🤯

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

99.8% of people you meet on a daily basis do not understand what money is.

#Bitcoin

[CsquidCo @cellarSQUIDc]

@RoxomTV @NeilJacobs

[Nolan @countbtc]

Going LIVE with maybe our greatest show ever. We’re talking about our top gay Bessent and his face punching of the incoming Fed chair, professor fwee egwor on his Bitcoin claims and @_The_Prophet__ analysis, @AmurakaHidden with his wrestling-politics kayfabe video and all the latest on Iran, the EU and Canada. It’s gonna be a great one, check it out

[Nolan @countbtc]

Like I've been saying on @RoxomTV , if you don't understand WWE wrestling, there's no way you're going to be able to make sense of the news. Kayfabe all the way, even according to @MarkDice

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Nobody escapes the Competency Crisis

[Nolan @countbtc]

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[Hodlius ₿ Maximus @MAKS_Diogenes]

Them: but what if bitcoin doesn’t work out? What you gonna do then

Me:

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

I've never seen anyone make this Bitcoin argument before:

People see Bitcoin as a replacement for fiat.

But what if you flipped it around? What if fiat was the replacement for Bitcoin?

Imagine Bitcoin is the monetary standard. It’s the money that’s been normal since birth.

Decentralized. No one controls it. Can't be inflated. Runs on math and energy. Same rules for everyone, no exceptions.

Now someone walks in and pitches you a replacement:

"We're going to let a small group of bankers and politicians control the money supply. They can print as much as they want, whenever they want. It'll lose purchasing power every single year. And if you don’t play by their rules, they’ll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail.”

Would you opt in?

Would anyone?

The only people that would opt in are the bankers and politicians, the same people who decided that fiat would be money in the first place.

Think about that. You never had a choice. You were never given a vote. It was only up to them. Fiat — by decree.

The fiat system goes back over 100 years — and central banking goes back even further.

That system has entrenched itself into society. It’s created economic schools around its ideas. It’s built entire industries around profiting from it. And it’s made itself the default so no one thinks to question it.

Bitcoin is not the crazy idea. Fiat is. It’s just been running so long that people have normalized it, so when an alternative monetary system pops up, people call it crazy.

When you flip the script and view the world from the Bitcoin lens, the ridiculousness of fiat becomes obvious.

Simply stated...

If Bitcoin had come first, nobody would agree to fiat.

[Nolan @countbtc]

The podcaster with the most accurate predictions that actually came true—for over 10 years—was @ScottAdamsSays.
Enter “predictive history” guy. He predicts the opposite world Scott predicted.
Luckily, both Professor Jiang and @TuckerCarlson here both think Bitcoin can be shut off with a button. Both call it a scam. (Nick Fuentes too).
Wouldn’t speak for Scott, but I run a daily predictive podcast modeled on Scott’s show for the last 4 years—2 hours before Scott every morning so I’d have fresh powder to interpret before I heard Scott’s take. Added Bitcoin + its economic incentives as my filter.
I predicted publicly, daily. Dopamine hit when I beat Scott to it.
My audience knows: I got to @VivekGRamaswamy , @RobertKennedyJr , and @realDonaldTrump Bitcoin embrace and its turn in the 2024 election before even the great Scott Adams.
I’m qualified to guess what Scott would say.
He’d notice this scam.
Bitcoin will Make America Great Again. 🇺🇸₿

[Roxom @roxom]

https://t.co/JWfPCXbrMM

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

Everyone is doom scrolling the war today.

Meanwhile 5 massive wins just happened:

1️⃣ Square is auto-enabling bitcoin payments for millions of sellers on March 30th
2️⃣ CFTC told self-custody wallet devs they don't need to register as brokers
3️⃣ Oklo got dual nuclear approvals from DOE and NRC
4️⃣ El Salvador quietly became the Dubai of the Western Hemisphere
5️⃣ SAVE Act advanced in the Senate 51-48

Never doom. We're going to win.

https://t.co/rygFa1imIV

[Mike McCulloch @memcculloch]

I'm in the process of trying to change the concept of mass, not attempted since 1600. There will be rending of garments, but rest assured the new model #QI is in better agreement with new data from deep space & new data from the lab & will give the world a technological boost.

[Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11]

Fascinating! @JoelSalatin talks about ancient grasses that his pigs have awakened.

Nobody can identify these grasses & the leading theory is that their seeds have lay dormant for 100s of years, waiting for the right conditions.

This is environmentalism by participation.

[Roxom TV @RoxomTV]

🚨 ISRAEL PUMMELS BEIRUT | TRUMP SAYS "CUBA NEXT"
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[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

It seems Jane Street may have had a long-standing culture that essentially trained crypto scammers, and perhaps also concocted and ran some of the scams themselves.

Terra/Luna was a jenga tower waiting for somebody to topple it, and it may have been Jane Street that figured out how to do it. If crypto is not strong and secure against such things, it provides little or no benefit over traditional finance, so I'm not going to cry about this, and perhaps it should even be applauded.

The alleged Bitcoin ETF market making + "10 am" selling with that liquidity sounds like a considerably more problematic conflict of interest. "Negligent" might be a good way to describe the ETFs who naively trusted Jane Street with this function. Now the once-hot crypto ETFs are draining because of an understandable reduction in trust, not in the coins themselves, but in the way Wall Street "makes markets" for buying and selling them.

In finance "everyone is a scammer" -- and you should stop blindly trusting scammers.

That is why Bitcoin OGs have long said, "Not your keys, not your coins," "don't trust, verify", and even "trusted third parties are security holes."

And when "the market" is so dependent on trusting strangers, especially strangers who still don't actually understand or like Bitcoin all that much, it's also not your "market price."

https://t.co/KhOX16gKZ3

[joseph.eth @josephdelong]

If you think about it KYC is actually insane.

The govt wants a bank to act as an extrajudicial body because they are too lazy to catch criminals.