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Developers face five-year sentences despite arguing they followed legal guidance and never held user funds.

Privacy features allegedly facilitated criminal transactions including darknet markets and fraud schemes totaling over $237 million.

Case follows Trump's pardon of CZ and echoes Tornado Cash prosecution amid growing debate on crypto privacy tools.

US prosecutors are calling for the maximum five-year prison terms for Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, following their guilty pleas to conspiracy charges for operating an unlicensed money transmitter.

Based on the government’s sentencing memorandum reported by The Rage on November 3, the developers designed Samourai’s privacy features—like Whirlpool and Ricochet—to help users obscure tr

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