*๐ Privacy = Prison? BTC Dev Jailed for Just Building a Wallet*
๐ฅ A Bitcoin developer, *Keonne Rodriguez*, just got hit with *5 years in prison + a $250K fine* โ not for scamming anyone, not for rugging a project, and definitely not for launching a shady meme coin.
His "crime"?
He helped build *Samourai Wallet* โ a privacy-focused BTC wallet that lets users mix coins to protect their financial privacy. No fraud. No token dumps. Just *code*.
And yetโฆ he's now behind bars.
๐ก Let that sink in:
Writing code for *financial privacy* = prison.
But dumping garbage meme coins on your followers? Thatโs still legal.
Samourai wasnโt about hiding crime โ it was about *giving people control* over their money. The kind of control regulators really donโt like.
Now the dev community is shook.
"Should I just build a meme coin instead?" ๐
What this really means:
- Devs will *avoid privacy tools*
- Innovation slows down
- Regulators gain ground
Bitcoin was born to fight this exact kind of control.
But today, it feels like *privacy is losing*โฆ and the system is clapping.
๐ Privacy shouldn't be a crime.
