They wrote code that helped people coordinate transactions to preserve 4th amendment and 5th amendment rights in the digital age. Fincin said they were not doing anything illegal because they did never took custody of anyone's Bitcoin.

They were prosecuted anyway.

Were they assholes? Yeah.

Did they say some dumb shit about enemies of the United States?

Aldo yes, but writing code should be protected under the first amendment of the United States Constitution. The problem is that the Bill of Rights has been eroded to the point where the Anti Fedralists have been proven right.

This is not TDS. This is the culmination of 80 years of assault on civil liberty in the United States.