Sam sits down with Zack Shapiro, Managing Partner of the law firm Rains LLP and Legal Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute to discuss all of the regulatory developments occurring in the broader cryptocurrency space including the recent enforcement actions against Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet and what they could mean for the Bitcoin ecosystem moving forward.

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Timestamps:00:00:00 - Pacific Bitcoin Festival00:00:41 - Swan $10k No Fees00:01:08 - Intro to Zach Shapiro00:01:51 - FinCen Proposal & Mixers vs CoinJoin00:10:02 - DOJ Enforcement & What Constitutes a Money Transmitter00:17:46 - Attack on Bitcoin/Crypto & Self Custody?00:23:34 - Tornado Cash Ruling & Code as Free Speech00:29:21 - Question of Decentralization00:43:48 - Samourai Wallet Money Laundering Charges00:45:45 - Incentivizing Development of Open Source Freedom Tech00:58:42 - Consensus Lawsuit & Ethereum as a Security01:16:09 - Zach Outro & Final Words01:18:19 - Outro

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