Alexey Pertsev is free, but I want to draw attention to something else.

Some people put people in jail, others let them out. But who do they put in jail? Developers. Techies. People who write code.

I look at this story and don't see that anyone who prints dollars was put in jail just because this money is used not only by honest citizens. No, everything is fine with the dollar. But privacy in crypto is no longer the case. If you create a tool that is "inconvenient" for someone, get ready for the fact that one day they will come to you.

Alexey Pertsev went through this. He was kept behind bars as a criminal. Although his guilt is questionable — the fact that he wrote code that was used by others. If we lived in a logical world, this would look absurd. But in our world, laws work in a strange way.

Now he is free. This is a great victory. For him, for his family, for everyone who supported him. But the anxiety does not go away. Because this case is not an exception, but a sign. Today Alexey, tomorrow — someone else. 

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