Tornado Cash and collateral damage

Re:Tornado Cash and collateral damage by highwaylights on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:14AM (#32518281)

Just to reiterate, the primary reason for those items to exist is not criminality, even if they are useful to criminals.

This is not true of something like Tornado which exists primarily to launder dirty money, even if it has fringe legitimate use cases.

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Re:Tornado Cash and collateral damage by angio on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:18AM (#32518949)

How does TC launder money? It's a privacy tool that hides the origin of cash, but when you cash out through an exchange you still need to prove the origin of cash. It's good to avoid others snoop through my wallet though.

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Re:Tornado Cash and collateral damage by highwaylights on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:36PM (#32525660)

I’m not overly familiar so I don’t want to assume something that’s not accurate, but I’m assuming cashing out at an exchange is entirely optional.

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