Black Box Justice: What Bitcoin Developers Need to Know About How the U.S. Government Prosecutes...
summary
Claims that a conviction depends almost entirely on Chainalysis Reactor — a proprietary, black‑box tracing tool with no peer‑review or disclosed false‑positive rates — drive the core argument: prosecutors present blockchain clusters as ownership without servers, private keys, logs, eyewitnesses, or direct linking evidence; an ebook screenshot is admitted and misattributed; a planned defense expert disappears after CipherTrace is acquired by Mastercard; grand jury subpoenas, aggressive money‑transmission theory and downstream liability create venue and statute‑of‑limitations issues now on appeal.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Roman Sterlingov’s case
- 7:32Arrest and pre-trial detention
- 13:10Chainalysis evidence concerns
- 22:22Government misconduct and trial flaws
- 32:15Constitutional violations and appeal
- 41:44Next steps and community support
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