On July 30, 2025, the co-founders of Samourai Wallet – Keonne Rodriguez (CEO) and William Lonergan Hill (CTO) – entered guilty pleas in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business under 18 U.S.C. § 1960.

The landmark case of Craig Wright v. Kleiman Estate represents one of the most consequential civil disputes in the evolving intersection of cryptocurrency, blockchain forensics, and digital asset ownership.