At some point, it will become cheaper to pay for Bitcoin devs to live in hiding from nation-states. Afterall, if a nation-state can't find you, then lawsuits are futile.
But a longer-term problem is that nation-states will eventually try to directly attack Bitcoin developers in a vain attempt to harm Bitcoin. Imagine being a developer and getting audited by every tax agency every single year. You'd have no time to write code, and the stress would give you a real heart attack.
But constant tax audits are just the tip of the iceberg. Nation-states can easily seize houses, cars, and other personal property (e.g. computers) by merely claiming that those things were used in the commission of a crime. And since Bitcoin is used by some criminals, the courts would say, "ya, it makes sense to seize computers from someone developer a currency that enables crimes."
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The LN node they use for receivingdonations is not well connected. As of this writing, there are only 3 chanmeld. Help them out with some inbound liquidity!
Hope this is the right node. I had to go asking around on Telegram to find it. If anyone can contact them, let them know that they should have their pubkey on their site.
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