Bitcoin had much bigger shit happening and haven't give a flying one for more time 
Sure, other shady exchanges got busted, and their operators were arrested or on the run. But so far the discourse was "those are peripheral incidents by outsiders, the core of the bitcoin movement is a bunch of honest people who are working within the law for the good of mankind."
It will be rather difficult to say that after this arrest, no? Who is the core of the Bitcoin movement, if it is not the Foundation?
There may be substantial tolerance for drug use in the US, but I don't think that it extends to drug traffickers -- that is how the FBI is describing Shrem.
Shrem will get his medicine, and we move on. I hope you really don't think that politics is done on that way. It's based around interests, mostly private ones, and if there was no interest to keep Bitcoin going, it would be shut down long time ago. Sinve there obviously is, and since this investigation was ongoing for months, Senate committee in November said - you're free to go guys, we'll deal with bad boys from your group and you just keep making us rich
