On May 23, 2026, Chris Horlacher was honored at the Enemies of the State conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan — an event recognizing individuals targeted by government overreach for defending liberty, privacy, and financial sovereignty.
Unable to attend in person due to the documented risks of cross-border travel for those under surveillance (as the Maher Arar case tragically demonstrated), Chris delivered his presentation remotely. In it, he detailed the multi-year campaign to dismantle Equibit Group and silence his work on decentralized securities technology.
Watch the Presentation
In his hard-hitting address, Chris exposed how a Canadian blockchain project building peer-to-peer securities infrastructure became the target of sophisticated technical attacks, financial warfare, defamation, and alleged intelligence involvement.
Key elements covered include:
- Router compromises via the TR-069 protocol with impossible 1981 timestamps
- Live Microsoft intrusions and spontaneous file exfiltration
- DNS man-in-the-middle attacks
- De-banking and institutional pressure
- The connection to Marc Godard and suspected CSIS involvement dating back to 2010
- Parallels to Stasi Zersetzung tactics adapted for the digital age
The presentation framed the Equibit story not as isolated misfortune, but as a warning: when individuals build tools that threaten centralized financial control, the system responds with overwhelming force — often operating in the shadows.
Why This Matters
Equibit represented a direct challenge to traditional custodians, transfer agents, and the surveillance inherent in legacy financial systems. The sustained campaign against it reveals the lengths to which powerful interests will go to maintain monopoly control over money and securities.
Chris closed with a call to action: visit equibitlawsuit.com, examine the evidence, and help amplify the documentation so that what happened to one innovator does not become the standard operating procedure against all who seek greater freedom.
Full Conference Context
The Enemies of the State event honored a range of targets including Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, developers behind privacy tools like Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash, and others persecuted for code, speech, and resistance to overreach. Chris’s inclusion alongside these figures underscores the growing recognition that financial innovators are now on the front lines of the liberty struggle.
Read the full documentation on this very website: https://equibitlawsuit.com
Court Filings & Technical Evidence
- 2021 Statement of Claim against insiders and libel defendants
- Forensic reports on router attacks, DNS hijacking, and more
The fight continues in the courts and in the court of public opinion. Share this post and the presentation widely. Sunlight remains the best disinfectant against abuses of power.
Enemies of the State are often the best friends of liberty.
