175 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 28 Mar \ on: Tornado Cash devs getting reamed by government bitcoin
This is dark.
This means that, using the same arguments, one could attack Bitcoin itself. Just remove the privacy part and replace it with pseudonymus and think of Bitcoin as the way it was intended (no custodial intermediaries), it will be permissionless and it will be used by criminals. Anyone building tools to facilitate this process, such as Phoenix, could be prosecuted, no?
At least, that's what I get from it based on my limited understanding.
I don't think it has gone quite that far, but it is a pretty bad trend. Not good for privacy tools or tech.
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Well, seems I'm not the only one making this reasoning.
It hasn't gone that far, indeed, but that's what Sjors is highlighting... depending on the outcome of the trial, this could serve as a really bad precedent.
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