我们必须通过呼吁代表放弃对Samourai Wallet开发商的指控来维护交易隐私权

在过去的几周中，我已经与许多政客进行了交谈。他们都将比特币视为价值的存储，并相信美国公民有权持有私钥。

I’ve spoken with a number of politicians in the past few weeks. They all see bitcoin (BTC) as a store of value and believe that U.S. citizens have the right to hold their own private keys.

在过去的几周中，我已经与许多政客进行了交谈。他们都将比特币（BTC）视为价值存储，并相信美国公民有权拥有自己的私钥。

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 in the past few years.

我不能说听到我们当选的官员表达这些观点，甚至提出将亲比特币立法整理成法律的法案，这并不是一件好事。这肯定令人耳目一新，尤其是在过去几年比特币和比特币产业的政治对抗之后。

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.

话虽如此，仍然有工作要做，其中大部分工作涉及倡导我们私下交易的权利。

One of the best privacy-preserving tools we have at the bitcoin base layer are bitcoin mixers, which help users to anonymize their transactions.

比特币基层中，您拥有的最好的隐私工具之一是比特币混合器，可帮助用户匿名化交易。

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.

最著名的混音器之一是萨穆莱钱包，它使用户能够以非监测方式混合比特币。也就是说，钱包的开发人员和维护人员从未触摸过用户的私钥。

This software was shut down early last year, though, when the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) pressed charges against the Samourai developers including conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges. (The developers of Tornado Cash, open-source mixing software deployed on Ethereum, are also facing similar charges.)

不过，该软件于去年年初关闭，当时美国司法部（DOJ）对萨穆莱开发商提出了指控，包括阴谋经营无牌的货币传输业务和阴谋承担洗钱费用。 （龙卷风现金的开发商，以太坊上部署的开源混合软件也面临着类似的费用。）

Some politicians, including Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have come out in support of the Samourai developers, drafting a letter to the former U.S. Attorney General, the Honorable Merrick Garland, in which they outlined that the developers clearly did not operate a money transmitting business as per the definition of such a business in FinCEN guidance from 2019. (With that said, Senator Lummis has also coauthored a bill in which she calls for the U.S. Treasury to “conduct a study on combatting anonymous crypto asset transactions like asset mixers,” but I digress.)

Some politicians, including Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have come out in support of the Samourai developers, drafting a letter to the former US Attorney General, the Honorable Merrick Garland, in which they outlined that the developers clearly did not operate a money transmitting business as per the definition of such a business in FinCEN guidance from 2019. (With that said, Senator Lummis has also合着了一项法案，她呼吁美国财政部“进行一项有关打击匿名加密资产交易（如资产混合器）的研究，”但我离题了。

Mixers are incredibly important for human rights activists who need to maintain their anonymity when sending and receiving funds as well as to everyday people who value transactional privacy.

混合器对于在发送和收到资金以及对重视交易隐私的日常资金时需要保持匿名的人权活动家来说非常重要。

Therefore, we need to bring this issue to the attention of politicians, as many are unfamiliar with it, so to hopefully have more of them come out in defense of the Samourai developers and to see the importance of preserving U.S. citizens’ right to use mixers.

因此，我们需要将这个问题引起政治家的注意，因为许多人对此不熟悉，因此希望有更多的人出来捍卫萨穆莱开发商，并看到保留美国公民使用搅拌机权利的重要性。

For this reason, I’m asking you to use the letter template published by my colleague Shinobi at the end of this piece to write your representatives.

因此，我要您使用我的同事Shinobi在本文结尾发表的字母模板来写您的代表。

Just as we’ve rallied to Free Ross and to protect the right to self custody, we must rally in support of transactional privacy.

正如我们集会以释放罗斯并保护自我监护权一样，我们必须集会以支持交易隐私。

This is something that I, the political correspondent for this publication, cannot do alone. I need your help. So, please heed this call to action and inform your representatives about this matter so that by the time I have a conversation with them about it, they have some understanding of the issue.

这是本出版物的政治通讯员我不能孤单的事情。我需要你的帮助。因此，请注意此事的呼吁，并告知您的代表此事，以便在我与他们进行对话时，他们对问题有所了解。