Senior Bitcoin developer Jon Atack was arrested in El Salvador over the weekend following a dispute with a neighbor, sparking an online flurry of concern before he was freed about an hour later.
Atack, who contributes to Bitcoin Core, posted on microblogging platform X that police confiscated his phone and passport, cutting him off from the outside world and fueling fears in crypto circles.
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Law enforcement initially told him he could be sent to a nearby prison, though he avoided that outcome.
The altercation appears tied to a disagreement over property issues rather than Atack’s crypto work. Stacy Herbert, director of El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office and a vocal
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