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CD100: The Disturbing Chainalysis Led Prosecution of Roman Sterlingov with Mike Hassard and Tor Ekeland

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The Chainalysis of Bitcoin Fog

This case originally came to us through a friend of mine out in Cape Cod, because cousin was the guy getting arrested. He's been incarcerated pre-trial for over two years now. And within five minutes of speaking with some of the first things that comes to mind is that we realize that the guy is innocent. The connections that they make between Roman and the patient of the website are weak, very, very weak. They have this convoluted string of transactions that the government alleges he conducted in order to fund the hosting of Bitcoin fog.com. It's not even the Tor network site that the Bitcoin fog ran on. All it did was forwarded a link to the Tor network. So we haven

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