What makes this case genuinely precedent-setting isn't the guilty verdict on the transmission charge.
It's what the jury couldn't decide. Their deadlock on the money laundering and sanctions charges (each carrying 20-year maximums versus the 5-year max for transmission) suggests even regular people (not crypto evangelists) struggle with the idea that building a tool makes you responsible for every bad thing done with it.

What makes this case genuinely precedent-setting isn't the guilty verdict on the transmission charge.
It's what the jury couldn't decide. Their deadlock on the money laundering and sanctions charges (each carrying 20-year maximums versus the 5-year max for transmission) suggests even regular people (not crypto evangelists) struggle with the idea that building a tool makes you responsible for every bad thing done with it.
https://paragraph.com/@seedclubhq/the-code-is-law-but-apparently-also-criminal

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And obviously American prisons are stuffed with all kind of people participating in the gun supply chain 🙄..