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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by Matticus_Rex on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:33PM (#28051185)
> Sure, if you bend over backwards and squint through one eye, you can contort yourself into the bad faith interpretation that developers will be treated as brokers--given they can engage in "transfers."

Pardon me for having a legal education and knowing that prosecutors are often more than willing to bend over backwards and squint through one eye.

If it's possible for a prosecutor to argue it, they will eventually argue it, and most of the time the courts won't push back.

Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by SamPatt on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:11PM (#28051651)
The entire history of governance and prosecution is bad faith arguments.

They only need the thinnest veneer of legality in order to abuse their power.