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."
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.
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!
https://amboss.space/node/02e986515d26b1ebf1276a3b7aa6f1d940e4487bbfb0a3a74f99a2a4b13749ed4b
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.