This week, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, two founders of the Bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai, appeared in court together for the first time since they were charged by the Department of Justice in April 2024 with conspiracy to launder money and operate an unlicensed remittance business.

On September 17, Rodriguez's eight lawyers requested to modify his bail conditions, including lifting the house arrest requirement and relaxing restrictions on his use of cryptocurrency transactions to pay for legal fees, but were rejected by the judge on the grounds of potential flight risk. The two's defense lawyers said that no evidence of the unregistered currency license business as stated by the prosecutor was found, and Hill's lawyers said that a lot of new information had been received. According to the press release, the wallets created by the two men were accused of executing $2 billion in illegal transactions and assisting in laundering $100 million in assets from well-known black market platforms Silk Road and Hydra Market.