Peter Van Valkenburgh: Coin Center – The Sanction on Tornado Cash
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Tornado Cash Developers - First Amendment Defence?
In the us, they're going to have constitutional rights. If all they did was publishe sophoere libraries, i think there's actually really strong first amendment defences. From what i understand, the netherlands has a negligent money laundering charge that they can bring against people. There is no similar criminal statute in the us. Money laundering is definitely illegal in the us, but it is a specific intent crime. It means you need to prove that the person you're accusing of money laundering had knowledge and specific intent to obfisate or hide evidence about some specific flow of funds related to some specific criminal enterprise.
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