He was actually the winner. Because bitcoin is not money, he didn't violate money laundering statutes. You also didn't talk about why he was being charged, nor the verdict and what this means to the crypto community.
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First of all, let me say that there are no hard feelings...What struck me was the use of the same picture of the judge and similarity in the title of the post. Indeed, you greatly beefed up the whole post. I did not do such because I didn't see much use in writing up a story in hopes of making a penny. Kudos to you for taking the idea and running with it.
I see, it was the best photo I could find of Judge Pooler. I didn't write it for the money, I did because it is very important news for the community. The fact that Bitcoin is not consider money will have an interesting effect.
I agree that it is news that can have a direct impact on all cryptocurrency holders, but what was significant to me was the difference in payout. I made zip from my post while you have created $.52 (and still growing at only 46 minutes into the post's life) in wealth from Steemit. To understand the differences between my efforts and yours could be worth something or then again maybe it was just luck or...