I have spent way too much money trying to get all the Mondo 2000 mags off ebay that I could find so supremely excited for this episode!! View quoted note →
Let me make this very clear. If Roman Storm goes to prison, we all will.
This case is not limited to privacy services, or even to cryptocurrencies. It challenges the very heart of all software development: the precedent that code is speech. If he loses, we can all be held accountable for what others do with our software – whether you wrote a Bitcoin app or a messenger that criminals used to plan their heist.
If you write code, or make your money by others writing code, donating to Roman's defense is in your own best interest. Absolutely pathetic that this man's fight is not fully funded within the first 5 minutes.
Option to donate BTC here:
NEW in Tornado Cash: Custody Issue Not Important To Storm's Defense
Every once in a while, a judge makes a decision that blows your mind by such epic proportions that you don’t even know how to caption it.
Today, Judge Failla, overseeing the prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, effectively reinforced her September decision that it does not matter whether Tornado Cash took custody of customer funds – the developers could still be charged with licensing violations, **even though the Government is no longer arguing that Tornado Cash needed a license.**
"The word license doesn’t apply here," […] “Theres no available license to move criminal proceeds, and the jury wont be instructed that there's any licensing issues at stake."
Because of this, what senior FinCEN officials have had to say on this “isn’t exculpatory” (read: doesn’t matter): “You haven’t persuaded me that the custody issue is as important as you say.”
Honestly at a loss for words for how someone could be sent to trial to face decades in prison when not even senior employees of the regulatory agency in charge seem to know how to interpret their own guidance.
Crazytown, my guys.
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Pre-crime is here baby!
After “we have closed your account because we suspect you have committed a crime,” here comes “we have closed your account because we suspect you may commit a crime in the future.”
DARPA has announced plans to launch a pre-crime AML program that attempts to stop money laundering before it happens, and it’s just as bad as it sounds.
This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
