EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
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EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
EFF’s most central concern about OFAC’s [US Office of Foreign Assets Control] actions arose because, after the SDN [Specially Designated Nationals] listing of “Tornado Cash,” GitHub took down the canonical repository of the Tornado Cash source code, along with the accounts of the primary developers, including all their code contributions. While GitHub has its own right to decide what goes on its platform, the disappearance of this source code from GitHub after the government action raised the specter of government action chilling the publication of this code.In keeping with our longstanding defense of the right to publish code, we are representing Professor Matthew Green, who teaches computer science at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, including applied cryptography and anonymous cryptocurrencies. Part of his work involves studying and improving privacy-enhancing technologies, and teaching his students about mixers like Tornado Cash. The disappearance of Tornado Cash’s repository from GitHub created a gap in the available information on mixer technology, so Professor Green made a fork of the code, and posted the replica so it would be available for study. The First Amendment protects both GitHub’s right to host that code, and Professor Green’s right to publish (here republish) it on GitHub so he and others can use it for teaching, for further study, and for development of the technology.
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EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Aug 23, 2022 5:29 UTC (Tue) by gfernandes (subscriber, #119910) [Link]
Does anyone have any real figures of people *paying* for _goods and services_ (please don't include speculation, illicit activities, and money laundering)?
I know of several open minded organisations, including a bus company, a pub, who tried, and found two things :
1. Just saying you accept bitcoin drives sales down.
2. The people protesting when you pull the mechanism, far outnumber any actual users.
EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Aug 23, 2022 5:32 UTC (Tue) by gfernandes (subscriber, #119910) [Link]
EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Aug 23, 2022 6:21 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Aug 23, 2022 7:31 UTC (Tue) by chatcannon (subscriber, #122400) [Link]
EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
Posted Aug 23, 2022 7:31 UTC (Tue) by madhatter (subscriber, #4665) [Link]
I know it's fashionable to rail against bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general, but it has other uses than bad ones. In the case of the Devonshire, my understanding was that the pub owner (a Cambridge ex-software chap) had real trouble getting a POS system that integrated cash register and card handling functionality, for a small number of terminals, for a sane price. Although willing to integrate them himself, he couldn't even get specs for the card handling end of things. With bitcoin, he was able to integrate it all himself in very short order, because all the APIs were public and well-documented.
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