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Attend the QT panel at Bitcoin Vegas and send us a video of you either:

– Calling AG Todd Blanche a liar
– Yelling „Free Roman Storm“
– Yelling „Free Samourai“

We will pay you $50 in bitcoin per video submission, up to $1,000.
122 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 3h

Only an edgy autistic bitcoiner would think this is a good idea.

What does this achieve exactly?

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Here's what L0la L33tz said:

I take back that you should boycott Todd Blanche’s panel, as I‘ve had a better idea.

Send us a video of you calling Blanche a liar, yelling „Free Roman Storm,“ or „Free Samourai,“ and we will send you free bitcoin.

The point of this challenge is not to disrupt the talk, but to make everyone in attendance (including Blanche himself) aware that you cannot speak on a panel on code being speech and ending the war on bitcoin when the department you are overseeing is actively prosecuting developers.

Why?

Because almost exactly one year ago, Blanche himself issued a memo titled "Ending Regulation by Prosecution." Since then, he has allowed numerous prosecutions of developers to go ahead anyway – threatening code as speech at every opportunity.

Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill are each doing 5 years in prison, sentenced after the memo was issued. SDNY continues to chase Roman Storm, trying to put him away for 45 years.

Its time that we challenge his empty promises, not give him a bigger stage to preach them on.

If Blanche wants to have a publicity stunt, he can have a publicity stunt.

Suck it, liars

Now, she runs a media company, so probably there's a healthy amount of attention seeking here (gotta get them eyeballs), but I imagine the main goal is to make the conference runners look bad.

Is that a good thing? Well, it is kinda stupid to have a panel called "Code is Free Speech" featuring the director of the FBI and the US Attorney General while they have spent the last year prosecuting a number of developers who made privacy tools.

171 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 7h

Lol...

What is Bitcoiners Magazine thinking. Seriously? Code is free speech?

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