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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by jobs_throwaway on Friday August 12, 2022 @05:12PM (#32443973)
>If the state can arrest people and cause activity to stop

We shall see if that's the case here. My guess is the state can't stop it

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by joe_the_user on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:04PM (#32461934)
States can certainly control the behavior of ordinary businesses that operate in their borders. Maybe they can't directly stop some hacker somewhere from operating a mixer but if coins from a mixer are as illegal as coins from some crime, these businesses won't want to touch.

I mean, the FBI has already shown it can see through mixers and arrest those who try to cash stolen bitcoins.

China has made sale or possession of bitcoin a crime but the West is following different road - with enough state intervention, bitcoin will wind-up a public money, less private money system than regular bank accounts. Every transaction is on the blockchain and that is public. Try putting that in your "anarcho-capitalist" pipe and smoking it.

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by jobs_throwaway on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:37PM (#32473544)
>the FBI has already shown it can see through mixers and arrest those who try to cash stolen bitcoins

source?

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