#SaylorBTCPurchase I’ve spoken with a number of politicians in the past few weeks. They all see bitcoin as a store of value and believe that U.S. citizens have the right to hold their private keys.
I can’t say that it doesn’t feel good to hear U.S. elected officials express these views and even propose bills that would codify pro-bitcoin legislation into law. It’s surely refreshing, especially after the political antagonism that Bitcoiners and the Bitcoin industry endured under the Biden administration.
With that said, there is still work to be done, and much of that work involves advocating to preserve our right to transact with bitcoin privately.
One of the best privacy-preserving tools we have at the Bitcoin base layer is bitcoin mixers, which help users to anonymize their transactions.
And one of the most well-known mixers was Samourai Wallet, which enabled users to mix their bitcoin in a noncustodial fashion. That is, the developers and maintainers of the wallet never touched users’ private keys.
