The prosecutors convinced a jury that he DID do something. They certainly didn't prove a negative. That everything exists in the positive is basic. Show me what didn't happen not on Thursday.

I can't do anything from a computer but communicate. All he communicated was signals to a program. If the program was better designed, he could have "released it into the web", so to speak, and walked away. Bitcoin would have appeared on his computer. So what? It could have just as well been totally automatic. And we can be sure that's the direction these things are headed. The incidence of his contact with a program is hardly evidence of participation in an international drug empire, where he doesn't know where to get drugs, or who to give them too. Anything could be exchanged through that system. If I build a road that's convenient for drug trafficking, an I part of that enterprise? It's just a road. He might as well have taught people anonymous telepathy, it's outside his control what they do with that.

He's being punished for 3 things- irritating politicians, expressing desires and wishes, and most importantly, for being THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS. Avast ye, landlubbers!

Just like I might get busted in Pittsburgh for being a taxi, when I'm really an 18 wheeler, can't you see my tires?