The case against Roman Storm convenes in the US. on December 2

If he is convicted, it will set a dangerous precedent—the US government will be empowered to target any open source software developer for crimes allegedly committed with the help of their code

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That’s what they thought. However, TRM and Chainalysis figured out how to trace funds through tornado cash no later than 2020. 

That aside — many of the crimes began before the funds arrived in tornado cash. For instance North Korean hackers frequently stole from protocols / bridges etc and then used TC to launder the funds. 

So the criminal case is predicated on the founders being very aware that this was happening but taking no steps to prevent this — even through the TC hosted front-end.

The unfunny part about “allegedly” is that because TC works so well, the crimes the indictment claims they facilitated cannot be proven to have actually been facilitated by the service—all they can show is that an address they were tracking used TC—what happened after that is unknowable