Trump to pardon 250 people to "celebrate America's 250th birthday"! SBF, Samourai founders, and Tornado Cash call for pardons

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U.S. President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon 250 people to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. Multiple founders in the cryptocurrency space—including FTX's SBF, Samourai Wallet's Rodriguez, and Tornado Cash's Storm—are seeking or campaigning for pardons, with Rodriguez's petition gathering over 16,000 supporters. (Background: a16z drops $115M! The biggest donor for the 2026 U.S. midterm elections revealed) (Context: Jensen Huang says old GPU graphics cards are like fine wine, "the older the better": chips from 5 years ago keep appreciating, rising faster than aged wine) U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly planning a large-scale pardon, considering pardoning 250 people to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America's founding. Once the news broke, multiple cryptocurrency founders and supporters embroiled in legal cases called on Trump to include them on the pardon list. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing people familiar with the matter, the pardon plan is still in its preliminary stages, with a formal announcement possibly coming on June 14, Trump's birthday, or during the July 4 Independence Day events. Last year, over 16,000 formal pardon requests were submitted to the White House. On his first day in office, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people involved in the January 2021 Capitol Hill incident. Since then, multiple incarcerated crypto founders and their supporters have continued to seek pardons from Trump. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was convicted on seven counts related to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024. He has continued to launch pardon petitions through social media, but according to the New York Times, Trump explicitly ruled out the possibility of pardoning SBF earlier this year. Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the crypto mixing protocol Samourai Wallet, has also publicly expressed his pursuit of a pardon. Trump stated last December that he would review Rodriguez's case and consider a pardon. As of Thursday, the pardon petition on Change.org had accumulated 16,082 signatures. Meanwhile, pardon petitions for Tornado Cash founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov have also been launched, but the two petitions only have 22 and 9 signatures respectively. Storm himself has not publicly requested a pardon. Storm was convicted last August of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, and still faces charges of money laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions. Semenov has been placed on the FBI's wanted list. The cases of Rodriguez and Storm have drawn close attention from the crypto community, with many supporters arguing that developers should not be held responsible for third parties' use of their software. During Trump's second term, several crypto founders have already received pardons. Last year, the White House pardoned BitMEX exchange co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, who had previously admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) was also pardoned in 2025, having previously served four months in prison for violating anti-money laundering regulations. Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was among the first to be pardoned by Trump in January 2025, ending his life sentence imposed for operating the dark web marketplace.

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