Privacy

31938 readers

703 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by grandma@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

95 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

He can write the code. He can release the source. Nothing is illegal until he takes currency.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 1 points 6 months ago

And see, there's where the problem comes in. He never actually took the currency from the smart contract itself. In fact, it is still online and being used as of this day. And he is getting none of the currency just like he got none of the currency before. What they are going after him for is creating a front-end user interface to access the contract. I believe they did take a fee from that user interface since it made it simpler than interacting with the contract directly. The problem is that they are saying that by taking fees from that user interface, he is money laundering, but not everybody who used that user interface was using it for money laundering. A famous example is the creator of Ethereum used it to donate to Ukraine.