Can we really count Shrem as dishonest? Most Bitcoin supporters would consider what he did legit. Its only government that thinks it isn't.
Whether he gets convicted or not, and whether bitcoiners think that the law is immoral or not, it not relevant.
For most people in the world, money laundering for the drug traffic is
not legit.
If those people are told that "most bitcoin supporters consider money laundering and drug trafficking legit", they will conclude that bitcoin is not legit.
Any institution that wants to be
the voice of the bitcoin community to the world must be respectable
in the eyes of the world.