1. I'm still feeling ambivalent about the Tornado Cash verdict.

Whenever I try to educate myself about what actually happened, I have to scan through badly written news articles. It's completely unclear what the Dutch court judged the matter on.

In regards to writing autonomous, unstoppable software, IMO this is fair.

Or else: How are we keeping people accountable if after deployment anything goes?

Privacy is contextual integrity and so e.g. a Tornado Cash including a "Know your customer" could have allowed users from breaking transaction trails while being fully compliant (my interpretation, at least). It's important to understand that being pro privacy doesn't mean you need to be a maximalist

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To be fair, the sale of guns and knifes is regulated to a degree. You cannot buy a knife made for combat or a gun without paper work

This makes no sense. Let’s prosecute gun manufacturers,  knife maker, etc..

I think in general if this stuff gets big we'll see a trend where validators are held liable for the code they run.  That said, a validator can advertise a policy (in this case anything-goes) and the user could be liable for actions that based on that policy could reasonably be expected to produce a certain result.

Privacy and KYC in the same sentence 🤔🤔😂