#742: Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable with Lauren Rodriguez

About this episode

Marty Bent discusses the implications of financial privacy and the persecution faced by Lauren Rodriguez's husband over Samurai Wallet.

Marty sits down with Lauren Rodriguez to discuss the persecution of her husband Keonne over Samurai Wallet, the criminalization of open-source code and financial privacy, and the urgent fight to free political prisoners in the war on crypto. Lauren on X: https://x.com/leamuirleyn FREE SAMOURAI: https://billandkeonne.org/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/yHGkvYxdqT Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Bitkey https://bitkey.world/ Aven https://www.aven.com/bitcoin CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Newsletter tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr…

People in this episode

Host: Marty Bent

Guest: Lauren Rodriguez

Topics covered

• privacy
• open-source code
• financial privacy
• political prisoners
• crypto persecution

Keywords

• privacy
• Samurai Wallet
• open-source
• financial privacy
• political prisoners
• crypto

Sponsors

Bitkey, Aven, CrowdHealth, Unchained, Salt of the Earth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Samurai Wallet

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