Dear Eric,
Basically I agree with you.
The bitcoin was and still is a threat to the government monopoly on the
issuance of money and the governments collection of income taxes on that
money. I never invested in bitcoins because I felt certain they would be
shut down.
But sentencing this person to life in prison for murder when nobody other
than a drug addict died and all he did was operate a bitcoin exchange is a
case of the punishment not fitting the crime.
Sam Sloan