Samourai Letter #7: Notes From The Inside

Samourai Wallet co-founder William Lonergan Hill’s seventh letter from custody describes the personal and legal pressures surrounding the case while reaffirming his commitment to privacy-preserving Bitcoin tools. The account portrays the prosecution of Samourai as a significant test of how U.S. authorities distinguish noncustodial software development from operating an unlicensed money-transmission service. The key implication for Bitcoin is heightened legal and regulatory uncertainty for developers of privacy-enhancing infrastructure, potentially chilling innovation and accelerating the migration of such tools and users outside the United States.