The following sentence ought to be enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine, at least if it accurately reflects a reality: US attorneys plan to extract a multi-billion-dollar payment from crypto exchange Binance in exchange for discontinuing their criminal investigation of it. In other words, U.S. attorneys are acting like mafiosi running a protection racket. Justice, so-called, is here not even like a game of poker, in which the players at least start out from an equal position, though some, of course, may be better, more experienced players than others. It is blackmail, for even the ...