this guy was given 8 years for a paperwork violation

The state claims crypto is not money but property. When you try to sell your property to others they claim you are a money exchange. The slave system is a complete fraud.

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) also weighed in. “Ian Freeman has been sentenced for 96 months for the ‘crime’ of selling bitcoin without the proper government paperwork,” the LPNH post proclaimed. “ Thanks to sound money, the days when tyrants can effectuate edicts like this are numbered.”

If he had actually scammed people, like the banks do every day, there would be no charges and small fine. It is only when you stand up to the communist "laws" that the hammer is dropped.

The criminal state does not care about you being scammed or victimized, they only care if you are obeying their criminal mandates or not.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nh/pr/ian-freeman-sentenced-8-years-prison-operating-bitcoin-money-laundering-scheme

By failing to register his business with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as required by law, disabling “know your customer” features on his bitcoin kiosks, and ensuring that bitcoin customers did not tell him what they did with their bitcoin, among other things, Freeman created a business that catered to fraudsters. By charging exorbitant fees, Freeman made more than a million dollars.

Freeman and his co-conspirators opened and operated accounts at financial institutions in the names of various churches including the Shire Free Church, the Church of the Invisible Hand, the Crypto Church of New Hampshire, and the NH Peace Church. Freeman instructed bitcoin customers, who were often victims of scams, to lie to the financial institutions and describe their deposits as church donations. From 2016 to 2019, he paid no taxes, and concealed his income from the Internal Revenue Service.

You have to pay your taxes.....

This is not a "paperwork violation". This guy is exactly the asshat you expect him to be.

✅ Article author wearing a MAGA hat in their profile picture, simping for a wannabe dictator who tried to stay in office despite being voted out, tried to block the peaceful transfer of power, and made a similar "paperwork violation" of sending fake electors to congress. Who also engaged in a long list of financial frauds for which he has been sued dozens of times. Birds of a feather.

✅ Turns out, at least for this guy, it's not paperwork, it's actually not paying taxes for years from the income he made from a unlicensed crypto exchange which touched over 10 million dollars.

✅ Turns out it's not just not paying taxes, it's also making a fake church charity to avoid taxes and instructing people to lie to their bank and tell them it was a "donation" to a church to avoid raising suspicion.

✅ Turns out he made over a million dollars doing this

Next time you use a public road, library, healthcare, enjoy clean and safe drinking water without getting typhoid, or benefit from any other government service, don't thank this guy, apparently he's too selfish and "enlightened" in his libertarian edgelordism to contribute his fair share while he makes over a million dollars. Regular people won't touch crypto with a ten foot pole due to asshats like this.

Want crypto to see mainstream adoption? Stop defending let alone idolizing and making martyrs of people like this. There are plenty of people imprisoned for much more noble acts you could pick from, go to Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders, or The Human Rights Foundation for their list if you're feeling really uncreative in picking your next hero.