These are minimal SMS exchanges, and the feds are probably reading them in real time. I asked if he was able to use email + PGP, and he said no. I haven’t said who I was, I’m just anon asking for the Internet.

Records said he has been released. I gave him a link to this site, suggested he make an account, and asked if there was anything he wanted me to tell people.

Thanks. I’m safe and unavailable for trades, and working with the pretrial services office of the US District Court for the Central District of California to get trades on Agoradesk/LocalMonero. I’m barred from “social media apps” but not under a gag order. Thanks for letting people know.

People have been relying on the notion that “Selling peer-to-peer isn’t illegal.” The problem with that is, that as soon as you are trading regularly, or making a profit, they are going to say that you are in the business of it instead, and therefore have to be a licensed money-service business, keep records, and perform full KYC on your customers.