Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
by salawat on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:22AM
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Knife/gun is completely unrelated in the grand scheme of things.
In finance, you are required to maintain the chain of provenance in an unobfuscated form. If you can't, or won't, your license to operate is revoked. If you didn't have one in the first place, you're already in hot water. You cannot play in the sandbox anymore. That's the civil side. Just like not being willing to help with airline emergency exit doors probibits you from taking up that row of seats.
Second, if you are connected to willful facilitation of criminal activity, that's when the fangs really come out, because the criminal with the technical expertise to facilitate is a much rarer thing, and the perfect subject for being made an example of ad a warning to others.
This is why I have repeatedly told anyone who'd listen. Peer-2-Peer payment technologies without control/auditing paired with them will never be tolerated once they are widely known about. Hell, things like World of Warcraft Gold or game currencies have been used as money laundering vehicles long before blockchain, and even they got law enforcement scrutiny from time to time.
Do not publish that which you don't want to eventually run the chance of being held responsible for.
In finance, you are required to maintain the chain of provenance in an unobfuscated form. If you can't, or won't, your license to operate is revoked. If you didn't have one in the first place, you're already in hot water. You cannot play in the sandbox anymore. That's the civil side. Just like not being willing to help with airline emergency exit doors probibits you from taking up that row of seats.
Second, if you are connected to willful facilitation of criminal activity, that's when the fangs really come out, because the criminal with the technical expertise to facilitate is a much rarer thing, and the perfect subject for being made an example of ad a warning to others.
This is why I have repeatedly told anyone who'd listen. Peer-2-Peer payment technologies without control/auditing paired with them will never be tolerated once they are widely known about. Hell, things like World of Warcraft Gold or game currencies have been used as money laundering vehicles long before blockchain, and even they got law enforcement scrutiny from time to time.
Do not publish that which you don't want to eventually run the chance of being held responsible for.