Name: Insider EXPOSES Trump's Secret Plan to ATTACK Bitcoin! | Zack Shapiro
Uploaded: 2025-05-14T12:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 h 13 min 44 s
Description: Zack Shapiro discusses the ongoing Samurai Wallet case and its potential far-reaching implications for Bitcoin developers and users. The conversation explores how SDNY prosecutors pursued charges desp

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Zack Shapiro discusses the ongoing Samurai Wallet case and its potential far-reaching implications for Bitcoin developers and users. The conversation explores how SDNY prosecutors pursued charges despite FinCEN's indication that Samurai wasn't a money transmitter, creating tension with the Trump administration's stated policies. Shapiro breaks down how this precedent could threaten node operators, wallet developers, and miners by redefining "money transmission" under the Bank Secrecy Act. The discussion covers legislative solutions like the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, Bitcoin's geopolitical significance for US economic dominance, and practical ways listeners can advocate against regulation by prosecution.

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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Outlining the case
12:26 - Biden/Warren admin
17:24 - Fold & Bitkey
19:00 - Next step and implications for precedent
23:24 - Unchained
23:53 - GENIUS act
27:34 - History of Bank Secrecy Act
33:19 - Nation states will need bitcoin
39:21 - Bitcoin fixes the world
45:52 - Killer use cases
56:14 - OP_DEBATE
1:04:54 - C2A