The funding issue is one side, and you raise some good questions.

The more significant issue is how to present an understandable (& compelling) defense to a jury. Money doesn’t solve that outright.

Prosecution has the easy arguments; defense has to explain COINJOIN to mega normies? Fight was over before it started.

Not to mention that this is was SDNY so the deck was already stacked against them.

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Also have to explain self custody versus not, why whirlpool is different, key pairs etc etc etc

ALL in opening, else you are immediately on the back foot.

Jurors make their judgement calls within 20 min of both sides’ openings. Even quicker sometimes in super technical cases