They may not be explicitly interested in destroying a business, but they may be very interested in seizing equipment and not particularly caring that you don't have a backup strategy.
If the investigators think that you are withholding data or harboring criminals, they can take the equipment. Bitcoins generally don't have the best reputation and they're a small company, so it's more likely they'll get treated roughly be the law if they don't cooperate.
Probably not because of one user, but when the cases pile up there's a good chance it'll raise questions about the legitimacy of their service.
When you earn your money by running said service, you are likely going to want to avoid that.
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Why would the police be interested in destroying a legitimate business just because they want data for 8 users?
They can just as well get the warrant and then get the data the same way they did now.
Lavabit comes to mind. I'm sure there are other examples too.
Some police forces just don't give a shit about what they take, from whom and for how long, see my other comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919912
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836358
They may not be explicitly interested in destroying a business, but they may be very interested in seizing equipment and not particularly caring that you don't have a backup strategy.
If the investigators think that you are withholding data or harboring criminals, they can take the equipment. Bitcoins generally don't have the best reputation and they're a small company, so it's more likely they'll get treated roughly be the law if they don't cooperate.
Probably not because of one user, but when the cases pile up there's a good chance it'll raise questions about the legitimacy of their service.
When you earn your money by running said service, you are likely going to want to avoid that.