They weren't prosecuted for writing software. They hosted a service and collected a fee and they knew full well that done of the people using the service they were hosting were engaging in illegal act...
They pleaded to conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitting business.
FinCEN told them they did not need a license and did not have a process in place to allow non-custodial entities to get a license.
Their prosecution was political and nothing they did was actually illegal under the letter of the law.
FinCEN told them they did not need a license and did not have a process in place to allow non-custodial entities to get a license.
Their prosecution was political and nothing they did was actually illegal under the letter of the law.
