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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#692: Free Samourai with Keonne Rodriguez

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, to discuss his decade-long mission to bring privacy to Bitcoin, the DOJ prosecution that led to his guilty plea, and why he and his co-founder Bill deserve a presidential pardon as he prepares to report to prison.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.4

Gian, this is crazy.

0:41.1

This is the first time that you've been on this show.

0:44.0

And it's for a very, I don't want to say somber,

0:49.4

but we're going to record to make the case for yourself and Bill to stay out of prison.

0:59.0

This is a morbid way to start out the podcast. How are you, number one?

1:02.9

Yeah, I'm doing good. Thank you for having me on here, Marty. I was trying to remember if I had done this podcast or not as Samurai, because I know we've done

1:11.0

some things together, but I don't think it was this podcast.

1:15.4

Yeah, I think we've done Rabbit Hole Recap and other things together.

1:20.4

I don't know, I've been thinking a lot over the last few days of how to start this episode.

1:26.6

I've been watching a lot of the appearances

1:28.2

you've done on Pod 256, the show with Kevin Kelly and Tevlo last week. And I think jumping off,

1:37.7

obviously, you are the co-founder of Samurai Wallet, yourself, and Bill were subject of prosecution from the Department of Justice.

1:48.5

You guys pled out to take on a lesser sentence. And I think we'll get into the sort of details

1:57.5

of the trial and how that went.

2:00.9

But before the what, I think it's important really, because I've known you in the space for quite a while going all the way back to your blockchain.info days.

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