Roman Storm never laundered money. He never moved funds for North Korea. He never managed anyone's crypto. He didn't run a dark web operation, sell stolen identities, or traffic anything illegal. What he did do was write code — open-source, decentralized code — that became part of a privacy tool some people used to break the law. For that, he now faces over 40 years in prison.

Sound familiar? Think Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht.

Welcome to America in 2025, where writing code that empowers privacy is more dangerous than running a hedge fund into the ground or bombing a hospital in Gaza. Where developers are prosecuted not for what they did, but for what someone else might have done using their tools. And where the state has made it clear: if you dare give people privacy, you are the enemy.