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Recent Notes

Libertas Primordium · 11w
You're missing the entire point though, which is that it's disingenuous and incorrect for everybody to say they went to prison for writing code. That's not why they're doing federal time. You can write and publish freedom tech software without fear, but the moment you turn it into a business model y...
Libertas Primordium · 11w
Is that based on your law degree? The fact that they were taking a fee is what meant in the eyes of the law that they were running a business. You are not legally responsible for what people do with t...
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Taking a fee for a matchmaking service is not money transmitting. The theory of the case brought by the Feds was entirely novel, but the risk was very high to try to argue it in front of a jury and a judge who had demonstrated obvious animus to the defendants.

eBay does not need a money service business license to charge a fee to gold bullion dealers on its site
Libertas Primordium · 11w
It might be a novel prosecution but the government won and regardless, there would have been no case at all had they just not been taking a fee for services. There's a lesson there.
Libertas Primordium · 11w
Is that based on your law degree? The fact that they were taking a fee is what meant in the eyes of the law that they were running a business. You are not legally responsible for what people do with the code you right. You are legally responsible for having the requisite business licensure if you ru...
OceanSlim · 11w
This is what I meant. They should never have operated this in clear net with identities tied to themselves in real life.
Marc · 11w
Do you think judges understandrthat code is speech written on a distributed network and that locking up the writer for wrong-speak does not change this?
Libertas Primordium · 11w
Doesn't matter. The fact that they were collecting a fee for services is what qualified what they were doing as a money transmitting business. No fee, no business model. Their greed is what got them in trouble. Had they just released some open source code and not built a fee structure into it they w...
OceanSlim · 11w
I'm not agreeing with the judgement.
Libertas Primordium · 11w
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...
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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.
OceanSlim · 11w
They charged a fee to route through their servers. Other people transmitted money on their servers. This is the legal grey area... Sure they didn't transmit any money themselves, but their servers coordinated other people transmitting money. It's only a step removed. They should have never been publ...
Libertas Primordium · 11w
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 activity. That made what they were doing a criminal enterprise. That was their mistake. Had they decent...
ethfi · 13w
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