Could you maybe fathom the possibility that AnonyMint is so clever he found a paradigm to legally bypass the very regulations he had been researching.
I never claimed otherwise, though frankly I doubt this is possible. Most illegal investment schemes (now)
involve some form of complex obfuscation and the law is designed to, and does, ignore form (i.e. paradigm) in favor of a view toward what is actually being accomplished. However, the abstract law and what is actually prosecuted are two different things, and different people may care more about one or the other. Participants have to make their own judgements.
Then should we dredge up AnonyMint's explanation of how Monero is potentially also an illegal unregistered investment security.
And that would be relevant to this thread how exactly?
See quoted underlined, bolded.
In my particular case sure, it's more about thinking it is interesting technology (mostly PoW cryptocurrencies -- I don't consider most of the rest very interesting) and less about doing fellow man a service, though I don't mind do that either. I also enjoy the competitive multiplayer game aspect of crypto (mining, trading, etc.)
So it is the chess in you. From my perspective, I say AnonyMint is more ideologically driven. The game you are playing is swallowed by the macro game AnonyMint is interested in.
The means justifies the ends. China and Blockstream are... (don't want to be banned by the man I entrusted)