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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by hapnin on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:30AM (#16706843)
> I wouldn't want to attach my name to anything that I know will have major consequences for me personally.

It's a good thing for all of us that Phil Zimmermann didn't feel that way.

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by pjc50 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:11PM (#16708189)
Phil Zimmermann didn't actually do anything illegal, if we believe that the export of PGP was done by other people.
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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by hapnin on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:09PM (#16708758)
He knew he'd be targeted (and he was), legal or not. It's probably why whoever wrote Bitcoin used a nom de chiffere.

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/

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