[SamPatt]

I'm not so sure. An idealist might build something to be totally agnostic, and only after adoption from criminals might then realize they need to do something about that, hence adding in a filter. Then that effort is seen as evidence against them?

Lots of open source software activists are idealists. This is why I asked if there's evidence they were actually receiving illicit funds.

[brookst]

> An idealist might build something to be totally agnostic, and only after adoption from criminals might then realize they need to do something about that, hence adding in a filter. Then that effort is seen as evidence against them

So, if he had an epiphany that criminals were using the system and the feature requests he was getting an naively implementing were benefiting criminals, why not block those accounts rather than implementing a "keep my stuff separate from the criminals the system knows about" switch?

The whole point of a trial is to establish guilt, and part of guilt is mens rea. Well, at least I assume that's true in the Netherlands, please correct if I'm wrong.

An idealist who just happens to believe that firing guns into the air is the most noble expression of freedom is still going to be liable for bad outcomes. You can argue murder versus negligence, but there is no "maybe he just wanted to see a bunch of lead in the air" argument for actual innocence.

[theturtletalks]

If he was not receiving funds, why even host it for these users? Make it easy for people to self host it on their AWS, PaaS, etc. and then you’re not directly involved in the use of that software. If software was really the issue, how could Kali Linux exist?

[EduardoBautista]

In order for it to work, you need as many people tumbling the same exact amount of crypto. If it’s self hosted, it wouldn’t be difficult to figure out that if two or three transactions went in, you only need to track the two or three transactions that come out.