That will go well for America…

Idiots

So that article is terrible. Written by someone who obviously hates crypto without understanding it. Also that guy charged with murder, never happened, murder charges were dropped as it was likely a setup to frame him and done by the cops who got him, and those same cops stole some of the bitcoin from the arrest and pleaded guilty. That dude does not deserve the life sentence he got. I don’t know if a pardon is right, but a commuted sentence, possibly time served, is wholly appropriate for this guy.

Edit: further, there are other developers currently arrested also facing prison for writing open source immutable smart contracts that provide privacy because they were considered the owners, but an appeal judge finally understood that no one owns an immutable smart contract on a blockchain since it can’t be altered once uploaded, and they won that appeal, but the case is still ongoing. There’s a lot of travesty when it comes to the government punishing or over punishing crypto developers.