Quote from: NotATether on May 09, 2024, 07:31:50 AM

The puzzling thing is, why only crypto developers are facing this? Normal developers get by without any problems at all. I think they are being very selective here.
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I would argue that the remaining developers are pseudonymous at best. Anonymity implies that nobody knows a thing about you. But they do have these online aliases they use for themselves, just like Satoshi.

not puzzling at all
many people get audited.. millions of people.. however we(the crypto community) only find newsworthy notes about crypto-fame people and when they get caught suddenly its a talking point

so while millions of people also go through the same audits.. only when someone that we know, who has been known to be an anti-taxer gets caught and it becomes news, do some people think its a direct target of crypto-bro's when in actual fact is there are a few thousand cases of tax evaders but we only care to hear, note, talk and go viral the stories of crypto people and then think its a big target on us..

when in actual fact there are thousands of people evading tax, we just care about the few cases that evade tax and use bitcoin and have been loudly voicing their anti-tax stance which, foolishly put a target on them by being a loud voice about tax evasion..
dont blame crypto as cause, blame his loud aversion to tax which got them noticed and then audited and then chased around the planet for years

its like many things.. the think you protest the loudest becomes your own target of why you then get noticed by the thing your trying to avoid
EG privacy kinks promoting anonymity are more then usually the ones that get flagged as suspicious the most and then followed the most

heres a secret.. the less you say the better