Roman Sterlingov - Profits over Justice - Disturbing ChainAnalysis Based Prosecution
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This case should disturb all people concerned about the over-reach of a justice system. Like the Tornado cash case, it only reinforces the need for the protection of individual freedom through anonymity. Tor Ekland and Michael Hassard describe the case of Swedish-citizen Roman Sterlingov accused of administering the crypto-mixer Bitcoin Fog and laundering $330 Million of criminal proceeds through it over the course of a decade. But there isn't a single piece of evidence that Roman ever operated Bitcoin Fog. He was merely an innocent user of the service securing his privacy interests. Nothing about this case adds up except the profit motives of the investigators and companies involved. Roman faces 50-years to life in prison based on speculative, uncorroborated, blockchain forensics conducted at desks thousands of miles away from Sweden. Hear Roman's lawyers dissect this Kafkaesque nightmare and explain why everyone in the crypto community should be concerned about this American Timestamps: 03:14 Who is Roman Sterlingov - back story 08:20 MtGox, Chainanlysis - questionable data 18:40 The targeting of Roman Sterlingov 21:30 Cast of Characters 35:52 Venue - Actions not committed in the USA 42:45 Cost of defense, friction  44:20 Need for anonymity Support the showBecome a subscriber and help support this podcast with fiat currency, credit card or Apple Pay https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058047/supporters/new show your support by sending sats- the cool way! insert this into a Lightning wallet [email protected] theswissroadtocryptogetalby.com subscribe to newsletter https://didierborel.substack.com/subscribe? visit website https://www.theswissroadtocrypto.com/ recommend on Twitter @SwissRoadCrypto If you want to contribute to the podcast, you can listen to the episode in a lightning enabled podcast player and stream sats or send as a 1 off. Download the Fountain app and donate sats or look up the Breez app,
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