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'''Michael Jude Gogulski''' (born 8 August 1972) is a political activist and freelance translator. He is one of a small number of [[List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality|former Americans]] known to have voluntarily become stateless after [[renunciation of citizenship|renouncing their citizenship]].

==Early life==
Gogulski's grandparents emigrated to the U.S. in the 19th century; his paternal grandparents from near [[Poznań]], [[Poland]] and his maternal grandparents from Germany. Gogulski was born in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], but his family moved to [[Orlando, Florida]] soon after due to his father's job as an [[electromechanics|electromechanical]] engineer. He has a younger sister, Karen.

Gogulski entered [[Orlando College]] in 1990 to study computer science. In April 1992, while still a student there and living in [[Casselberry, Florida]], he became the first person to be arrested by the [[Orange County Sheriff's Office (Florida)|Orange County Sheriff's Office]] for computer hacking. Police stated that he had stolen at least $30,000 of long-distance telephone services. Charged with one count of violating the Florida Communications Fraud Act, he pleaded guilty in [[Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida|Seminole County Circuit Court]]; under a [[plea bargain|plea agreement]], he received two years of probation, but a formal ruling of guilt was withheld and no further charges were filed. He later lost interest in his studies and withdrew from school. Nevertheless, he went on to a ten-year career as a [[system administrator]].

Gogulski's father died in 2001. In 2004, Gogulski left the U.S. to teach English in [[Eastern Europe]]. He eventually ended up in [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]], where he became a translator, proofreader, and editor. He was living in [[Slovakia]] at the time. After Gogulski renounced, the Slovak authorities issued a stateless person's travel document to him. He thus needs a [[United States visa]] in order to visit his mother, but he suspects that he would be unable to obtain one. He states that he is eligible to apply for [[Citizenship Act (Slovakia)|Slovak citizenship]], but prefers to remain stateless.

==Political activism==
In 1999, Gogulski founded the Connecticut Cannabis Policy Forum, which aimed to [[Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States|remove all penalties for adult marijuana consumption]]. In 2010, Gogulski founded the Private Manning Support Network, which organised protests in support of [[Chelsea Manning]] (a U.S. soldier convicted of disclosing classified documents to [[WikiLeaks]]) and raised $50,000 to fund her legal defense.

==Bitcoin==
As a software developer, Gogulski has contributed open source code on [[GitHub]], including a [[PHP]] library for the decentralised digital currency [[bitcoin]]. He is also an active member of the [[online forum]] Bitcointalk.org and has been interviewed on bitcoin by [[Russia Today]]. He operates the Bitcoin Laundry, a service which allows users to exchange their bitcoins for other bitcoins which have a different transaction history.

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:People of the industry]]
==See Also on BitcoinWiki==
* [[Cgminer for Mac OS X (project)]]
* [[Yazılım]]
* [[YouTipIt]]
* [[SwishCoin]]
* [[Coinbaser]]

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