Spoke to a few people at the conference who told me explicitly the DOJ knew it was overreach but still decided to pursue the case out of fear mongering for devs and the Bitcoin community.
Discussion
"After we free Ross, I would really like to see in the American government and across the American politcal spectrum the priority be placed that America becomes a place where code is protected speech, I believe the Constitution already protects it, I believe that we have developers right now that are sitting in jail, one notetably being Samourai developers, that should be freed immediately, and that protections should be in place going forward so that developers of open source software, non custodial software, that does not touch money, are not treated as money transmitter businesses but are properly treated as protected speech writers." nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aq93vhd7