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Alexey Pertsev (The Tornado Cash Dev) was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison. His crime? Coding an open source smart contract.

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Two more privacy developers arrested in the US today. This time for building a bitcoin privacy service. Where does it stop? "The Samourai wallet developers should have known you can't host a centrally operated mixer." Ok, well the tornado cash developers deployed privacy as immutable code - nothing centralized - they also got arrested. Up to 25 years in prison for writing code that helps people keep transactions private. The UN estimates banks facilitate nearly $2 trillion in money laundering each year - not through custodyless code - but as willing intermediaries. Dozens of major banks have been fined billion of dollars for money laundering over the past decade. How many bankers have you seen go to jail? They are making an example of crypto because they don't want us to have private peer-to-peer transactions. Not by passing laws in democratically elected chambers. Not by issuing public guidelines. They just come to your house and take you away. Who's safe from this regulatory terrorism. And who's next? zcash is a privacy preserving blockchain - aztec is a private layer 2 - how about them? How about their investors and users? Or the DeFi protocols that interact with them? How about the at-home Ethereum validators who process their transactions? Or the developers working on open source cryptography libraries? There's really no way to know where they'll stop because they're not following actual laws. This is regulation by arrest. They want to scare us. Maybe we stop them from sending our privacy devs to jail in the courts. Maybe. Is that really what it's come to? I'm so disillusioned by a justice depart that calls this justice. There's too few of us to fight. No one's coming to come save the crypto bros. Because they yet don't know what's at stake. If we lose the right to crypto privacy we lose the right to transact. That's where this is headed. I wish i had better news.

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