>I doubt even a gov investigation starting today (for whatever reason) with all the power it has would achieve it (unless more than one person knows the secret, in which case a US investigation has a broad range of legal methods to compel testimony and reveal it).
As much as members of the Bitcoin community like to think of themselves as agitators, there were very clearly no laws broken here.
>As much as members of the Bitcoin community like to think of themselves as agitators, there were very clearly no laws broken here.
Yeah, that's all clear now, but 4 years ago the legal situation was much murkier. This was all very new ground and we had no idea how the U.S. government would react, particularly given some of the other things going on at the time (particularly the prosecution of E-Gold, which was centralized but shared some features with Bitcoin).
As much as members of the Bitcoin community like to think of themselves as agitators, there were very clearly no laws broken here.