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> China, Russia, Iran or North Korea?

Probably no but I also would expect to face consequences if I go to the country whom court order I choose not to fulfill.

It's the same thing with the USA in the crypto community, you either don't sell US citizens unregulated securities or you sell and avoid USA or any country that might extradite you to USA.

I remember the days when the internet was the wild west, laws wouldn't apply and the cops lacked the tools to catch anyone or enforce anything. Those days are long gone, the rule of the thumb is that countries now have rules and tool for this stuff and if you break them better never ever visit these countries.



>It's the same thing with the USA in the crypto community, you either don't sell US citizens

When I read that at first, I thought crypto was short for cryptography, and you were referring to the crypto wars, back when most cryptography was classified as arms (weapons) in the US and it was illegal to distribute cryptographic software in many cases.

One of my instructors in college attended a US college, but during his PhD would drive to Canada to write all the code, so that the code could be legally distributed. If it was written in the US, it couldn't be.


Yes, US does have export regulations on cryptography and you can indeed get in trouble with the US for math, App developers who distribute through App Stores would go through the paperwork of it to stay compliant.




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