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 That's the thing right. And your left with a few thoughts

- how big is my target
- how much time do I have 
- how normal of a life do I want to live
- how much pressure can I tolerate
- how do I get the amount of money required to keep me out of prison or suicided 

Attorneys that have the motivation to fight the justice department are hard to come by and quite pricey.  
 These were all very real things we had to contemplate in my last venture, which we decided was not a hill to die on, at least for now.  
 i've always been an outlaw... in 2003 i published a document on the internet that was technically a criminal act - providing instructions on how to produce an illegal drug... (queensland, and DMT) and i'd already gone underground back in 1995 with the psytrance scene and taken the red pill (acid and mushrooms) by that point, it was all over

my take on it is: if you have something to lose, move so they can't take it from you... move far from the center points of their operations and the chances are they will never show up, or at least it won't be a door kicked in but your local shopkeeper tells you that feds were asking funny questions about their local programmer misfit resident, or get right out of their jurisdiction altogether... that's also why i'm not considering going back inside the EU any closer than this location here, where the incumbent, second time elected governor of the island is bitcoin friendly 
 Germany has some of the nicest prisons and a strong data-security and hard-money political subculture.

I just hope they don't get too extradite-happy.