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Difference is, there is no one behind bitcoin. No one to arrest. The only "real people" "behind" it are the Exchanges. However, they(usually) hold proper documentation for transactions and comply with the law fully.

> Difference is, there is no one behind bitcoin. No one to arrest. The only "real people" "behind" it are the Exchanges.

No, the real people behind it are the miners. You know, the people that create bitcoins and validate every bitcoin transaction?

Let them bust a few miners. More will take their place.

If miners are ever prosecuted, then that is a pretty big signal that the U.S. has completely lost its shit. Submitting the outputs of hash functions to a distribitued p2p network sounds like extremely basic free speech to me.

As a young person with no wife/kids and plenty of tech job prospects, I would probably start researching moving abroad.

That's a pretty new situation, and not nearly as certain as you make it sound.

Incidentally, Preet Bharara is also in charge of the Ross Ulbricht trial (the NYC one). So LR is wrapping up just in time to focus on SR.

Bitcoin makes money transfer easier to monitor. Why do they want to go after Bitcoin?