It certainly is a possibility. I am acutely aware of it every day. It is incredibly high stress. That is why our core team desires to hire people to run the business day-to-day, so we minimize our exposure online and hence reduce possibilities of making opsec mistakes.

Communicating with a lawyer anonymously is not much more difficult than communicating with someone on HN anonymously.

Here is an article discussing some of our opsec, server-oriented: https://medium.com/@PinkDate/pink-app-trading-latency-for-an...

At least I am doing something ethical, to benefit people. This is more than I can say about working on adtech and privacy-invasive data software.

Stop talking about your illegal venture when all doing so gets you is increased risk of capture.