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 Satoshi was fully anon for a reason, we will likely see alot more fully anon devs in the future.

These sludge of of kleptocratic gerontocracy can't stop ideas, privacy is a human right. 

https://m.primal.net/IGeK.png  
 I hear terrorists prefer cold card, what have you done to prevent them from storing illegal funds? 
 I'm guessing the same Nokia has done to avoid the 3210s becoming the favorite remote detonators. 
 Yeah @NVK, stop allowing the US government to purchase hardware from you! 
 "Building and deploying something unstoppable is also a decision" 
 I know a judge who use to be at a higher court, I can totally hear this being said in their voice. 
 From my point of view, if you want to build something really unstoppable, anonymity is a must, otherwise you're a point of failure. This is why they couldn't stop Bitcoin when they had a chance.  
 Imagine putting Alfred Nobel in jail because he didn't put locks into the process of manufacturing dinamite, despite knowing that strong explosives had always found its way into weapons. 
 The implication is that things such as covid, bombs, guns, bullets, and the central banks that make evil possible are stoppable. 
 so all linux developers should go to prison? 
 Yes, but different reasons. People should use *BSD 
 Would you suggested something like GhostBSD for a daily driver laptop? 

https://www.ghostbsd.org/ 
 freebSd is more secure than Linux or at least it used to be 
 "These sludge of kleptocratic gerontocracy" added to my vocab 😂 
 If the DOJs case that Samourai devs are custodians because they could change the code of the Samourai Wallet in the future stands up in court, idk what happens next. 
 this is a extremely different case 
 The company who built a street is now liable for any drunk driver accident 
 Sataoshi was no dummy. he knew the US government would have him trussed up like Hannibal Lector quicker than you can say 'nice chianti' if they every found out who he was.