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The Arrest Heard Round the World

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The Developer of Tornado Cash Was Arrested in the Netherlands

The netherlands arrested a 29 year old developer in conjunction with his work on tornado cash. The response on crypto twitter was deafening, and roughly exactly what you'd suspect bankles ryan adams wrote: they arrested the developer of tornado cash. I repeat, a man was arrested for writing code that served as a public good for people maintain their privacy on line. They put a man in jail because bad people used his open source code. This cannot stand in any free society. It's unclear if there are allegations of illicit conduct unrelated to right ing code. If not, this threatens to be the start of crypto wars too.

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