The outcome of the Tornado Cash case will have a huge effect on the remainder of my working life. IMHO everything worth building in this space is going to piss off one powerful entity or another. If writing powerful code isn’t protected by law, then we can’t build anything worth building out in the open. Everything worth building will have to be built by anons or non-US citizens. If having your code be used by criminals is sufficient to make you a criminal, then we cannot legally build *anything* that is permissionless. If Roman loses, my options are: - go work on some gatekept, permissioned, centralized, cucked project that doesn’t empower anyone — (I’d rather become a goat herder) - go underground and build illegal code anon (mad respect for people who do that, but I have a family to raise and I’ve seen enough prison movies to not want to go there) - leave tech and do… whatever non-tech people do. Herd goats or something. The jury has a lot of lives and careers in their hands and probably don’t even realize it.