You weren't there.
You weren't at the BBS
You weren't at the IRC channels
You weren't even at the forums
At that time, only government related people from the west or malware writers literally from Russia had interest in crypto.
So was that case with Dave Kleiman. He died worried sick that he'd be exposed, you will never understand that. How it feels to lose your career over something that was basically useless at the time and yet went against your own (gov) employer.
Please stop rewriting history. You are becoming religious zealots writing fiction stories, but there are still plenty of us who were indeed there and participated on what happened.