Re: Risk of jail for developers. Should you be anonymous?
You are literally a wizard, time traveler or both 
Should public developers be anonymous? Now I think this is not going to help at all, since the intelligence agencies (the real predators) already have a dossier of them. Look at how they completely doxxed the Samourai developers during the takedown.
Best thing to do is to have the ability to organize a good legal defense.
Open source needs more lawyers.
Should public developers be anonymous? Now I think this is not going to help at all, since the intelligence agencies (the real predators) already have a dossier of them. Look at how they completely doxxed the Samourai developers during the takedown.
Best thing to do is to have the ability to organize a good legal defense.
Open source needs more lawyers.
Samourai was a legally registered company. The founders had used their real names when they registered. That is contrary to what Satoshi did, but then again Satoshi didn’t create Bitcoin as a for-profit business venture. I believe their original company was dissolved and then registered as an anonymous LLC in Wyoming but it would’ve been helpful if they’d been anonymous from the beginning.
Aside from developers keeping their identities private, their project needs to be as decentralized as possible. Samourai had a single point of failure which is their centralized coordinator. In contrast, with Joinmarket there isn’t a centrally controlled server that interacts with participants. They could still decide to target Joinmarket but it would be a much weaker case.