Prosecutors Cite Bitcoin Fog Ruling Against Roman Storm’s Venue Challenge

The venue fight is turning into a proxy argument over how far money-transmission law reaches privacy tools, with prosecutors leaning on a mixer precedent to keep the case in their preferred forum. Storm's FinCEN counterpoint matters because it undercuts the idea that regulators uniformly treated mixers as illicit, a theme his defense can reuse on the merits. The practical effect is delay and uncertainty for a case that shapes how developers of privacy software are treated. Whether courts accept the Bitcoin Fog analogy, and whether FinCEN's withdrawal carries weight outside the venue question, is the open question.