>if you touch 8333 or run the naughty international version that Senator Warren does not approve of, or run an unregistered node, or any other such insane fanta

>if you touch 8333 or run the naughty international version that Senator Warren does not approve of, or run an unregistered node, or any other such insane fantasies is just dreams cos you don’t get what Satoshi was all about yet. I would say this is the wrong framing. If the law forbids transacting with Russia, it doesn't matter if you do those transactions by meeting up with a Russian agent in a dark alley, or by running a complex computer algorithm. If you choose to execute an algorithm which makes it difficult or impossible for you to tell if you are in violation of the law, you had better be certain that it also makes it impossible for the government to tell. If it does not, you're going to find yourself in trouble. It doesn't matter if you frame your activity as merely running open source code.