They are trying to give him the Ross Ulbricht treatment just for developing a mixer that they couldn't take down.
As has been said before, they are going to go after the developers of every single privacy service and try to wipe it off the internet. When? That is unknown, but you can safely assume that if whatever technology you are working on crosses the bad side of governments, then you're done for.
no they are not
its not about being a developer..
seems even you have fallen into the social media trap..
the charges are not about being a coder..
the charges are about knowingly and directly facilitating and aiding criminals to do laundering and accepting payment for that direct involvement of facilitating laundering
the lame social media is trying to turn it into a story about developers to freak developers out. but it has nothing to do with developers
the charges are purely about conspiring to offer and facilitate laundering services, whilst also knowing the customers using the services are known sanctioned entities/criminals.
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lets make things short and sweet
lets say that dave brad and ken are known criminals and have been using your service, and then authorities come along and inform you that these entities have been using your service, and the authorities warn you to do something or be treated as assiciates of criminal activity. you inform the authorities you will act on their information and do things to prevent further negative actions being inposed by authorities on yourself, informing authorities you will become compliant to evade you getting caught up in the mess.. however you then privately message your business partner to say your not going to effectuate anything that will prevent the laundering(though you could)
the crimes still continue and you then become associated with facilitating the crimes and knowing doing it because you have been previously been informed and warned, yet you continued to do it...
its got nothing to do with "just a dev" its about being informed and warned of particular customers, being warned that you need to become compliant to evade you being tied up in criminal charges.. and yet you pretend to be compliant whilst still allowing the criminal activity
and ontop of that taking a handsome income from facilitating the criminal activity even after the warning..
the indictments even from last year dont reveal all the evidence gathered by authorities but if you read through it with a clear un bias confirmed mind, with a fresh prospective you can garner enough information that its got nothing to do with "just a dev" and everything to do with continuing to facilitate crimes even after being warned, and also taking income from facilitating it, directly knowing that the income was coming from certain sources
there are many laws and regulations that if followed would have protected these guys from prosecution if they did follow through, but by ignoring the warnings and not following also got them another charge
