More importantly, how long are they on Dogecoin? (Funny post, btw. The whole thing is totally absurd.)

I know, and yet I'm only half joking because they probably face some of the same issues as any legitimate tech business. There's plenty of extra issues on top that go with any organized crime-- money laundering, worrying about law enforcement, loyalty of their members and brutal enforcement of it. I really am fascinated by what the structure of this would look like from the inside. Of course much of it depends on the degree to which it may actually be state-sponsored, or just lightly assisted or politely ignored. Now with the added prospect of a powerful country with a vendetta against them.

It's even conceivable that if they go too far and political pressure in the US builds high enough, and Russia &/or their countries of residence are also put under pressure, that they could find themselves on the wrong end of a drone strike or no-knock flash-bank assisted rapid entry to homes and business locations. All they have to do is pick the wrong target that directly leads to deaths-- hospitals the most obvious, but industrial accidents or "rapid unplanned disassembly" of something like a chemical plant...

I was shocked at the pipeline attack, followed by one on the US's food supply. These rise to the level of terrorism, and when fear & anger become dominant motivating factors the event horizon for any ability to predict what happens will become significantly shorter and less certain.

And in the middle of all of that will be a team of techies and support staff struggling to cope with day to day realities of running a thriving organization. There's an IT Crowd satire show somewhere in there that Netflix should consider.