I'm drunk at the moment but I'd like to emphasize that the fine enforced by DOJ is a fucking joke. If you have any understanding how international civil law works you can basically wipe your ass with the fine.
Worst case scenario is that it would stretch into a fucking long (years) proceedings. US has no jurisdiction to enforce that fine unless another extraterrestrial state beforehand has agreed upon to enforce such fines.
It will be a long and heavy process for US Officials to enforce this fine.
As a lawyer I suggest neglecting this and denying US ip adress access to btce, and all thereafter is lawful. Should any US citizen use VPN or other measures to reach btce, it's beyond the control of btce.
Should any btce admin or owner wish to talk about all this I am more than willing to do so.
Good point (I am also a lawyer).
I think we could start a quasi~class action to recover our funds or at least give them a legal headache. Perhaps we should have a eth token sale to raise funds to purse them, eg if people put in equivalent 5% or their BTC losses into the ICO then the it may be more likely to recover, even 1% would probably x -million at this point.
The US has to realise that as far as non US citizens dealing merely dealing in tokens they should not be penalized. Eg just becuase I stand in a room and the people running the room maybe be doing something else, does not touch on my ownership of my property, particularly when the I and the part of the room I am standing in are not subject to US jurisdiction.
They need to know they cannot SMASH and Grab what is beyond their legal borders. Take what is due to them under the limit of their laws only.
If you are what you are and can proof it, then do it, setup an trustworthy crowdfunding and do something. I will jump in for sure.
I Can prove who I am, no worries, but I have to be upfront about the outcomes::and a few other issues::
I like to be this way because I do not want to over promise, an communicate about my reasons.
[1] I expect we will cause them a massive headache, and next time they do this they will have to think serious about sequestering funds in the future, when they take down exchange - x
[2] I suspect that who ever is seizing the servers/data, will try and get the private keys themselves by any means possible, and will be long gone by the time the court process winds up.
[3] I expect a lot of it will make it's way to individual FBI officers personal money or similar. Which may work in out favor in some ways.
[4] I suspect this is exactly what happened in the "satoshi" guy in Australian, the Australian fed police turned up the next day, and I am sure a few fed officers now hold significant BTC.
[5] I do expect we will need to explore several legal actions / options, and this will take some thorough legal analysis.
[6] To do this we will need a good US based law firm, or persons of out choice and vet them well.
[7] It maybe better that we do this in the following manner. I stay ANON, but publicly engage various law firms etc. I am open to various views on the best way to structure this. Say we collect an ICO it eth, we can engage the US law firms in eth to do the parcels of work. I can see benefits to being ANON and public.
[8] We need to set up the ICO so it is un impeachable under US-transmitter laws etc.
[9] There going to be a considerable back end to this, eg collecting and to the level of proof any claimants for their crypto as a lost of scammers will appear.
[10] Lets get the bastards. And I fucking will.