yes - donot rule out bankers sponsoring to build policy FENCES behind the scene around the consumers (banking industry are ultimate losers when more masses join the bandwagon) - ur approach of navigating the law water is not bad idea , guess others may think of extra hazard to deal it. remember nodeless site case he was pressured by law enforcement too that's up north.

The very fact of making people outcasts it's already a battle lost. Even if they fight back (and become heroes at Nostr), the fact of having to focus on a legal defense and spend resources on that rather than building the product, already marks a kind of defeat IMO, a bad strategy as a whole, that becomes self evident now with the power abuse. Hope reality proves me wrong; everybody loves heroes (and very few people are) but lawyers are not enough to advance privacy.

The ACINQ software is open source, why don't you host a version of Phoenix wallet yourself?

Then, you can pay for the lawyers and beg for help from the Bitcoin legal defense fund, Opensats etc.

Don't ask other people to risk jail time if you're not willing to either. Instead of demanding other people place themselves at risk of arrest, why don't you put up, or shut up.

You wouldn't cave on day one? Yeah, right. Talks pretty cheap. So is hosting your own ACINQ node. You can have that up and running in just a couple of hours. Hell, I'll even set it up for you for free, provided you record the day the FBI kicks down your door and arrests you for daring to do what you're demanding other people so.