Of course they did, Adam Back and many others in the OG crypto community risked going into prison for exporting cryptography algorithms on T-shirts, as they bel

Of course they did, Adam Back and many others in the OG crypto community risked going into prison for exporting cryptography algorithms on T-shirts, as they believed that end-to-end communication and privacy is a basic human right. They are still fighting for the same thing for the last 30 years, just now with peer-to-peer money. Sancioning people based on the country they were born is the antithesis of what many of us are still fighting for.