AcctingDept on Nostr: Because they didn't launder money for anyone. They wrote open source code that ...
Because they didn't launder money for anyone. They wrote open source code that facilitated privacy on bitcoin, and then loudly speculated that it could be used for money laundering. They might be slimy, but even if they are the precedent that writing code to facilitate private transactions constitutes money laundering is exremely dangerous. The US has a common law system, so precedent becomes law.
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