The Alexey Pertsev case remains an extremely sobering one to consider, for those of us who've devoted some chunk of our lives to helping people get a bit more privacy and therefore sovereignty in their financial dealings.

This recent article is by a journalist/filmmaker who clearly (to me, anyway) doesn't quite "get it", but his perspective from delving into the details of the case is worth reading:

https://rekt.news/war-on-code/

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From what I understand they'll be charging him not for writing code, but for running an unregistered security with the explicit aim to profit off money laundering. He single handedly controlled the "DAO". The shitcoining is what made him vulnerable to this, not the code writing

[coinjoin operators ] singlehandedly controlled a [coordinator server] to explicitly profit off money launderers. Your same chuck argument applies

Cuck*