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Even if used by "good actors", you're still facilitating money laundering. Which is always illegal. There is no "legal" way to launder money.


The technology behind Tornado Cash could also be used for instituting something like truly fully anonymous group surveys (such as those employee surveys big companies always ask you to take that they claim are "anonymous")

It doesn't have to be used for money laundering, and even if using it to move funds anonymously, that doesn't mean you're money laundering. There are good reasons to not want individuals and state actors whose jurisdiction you're not under to track your financial movements, even if you are reporting your income accurately with your own government.


> even if using it to move funds anonymously, that doesn't mean you're money laundering

The whole point of tornado cash is to "pool" funds to obfuscate who owns what. If your funds get "pooled" with funds from a criminal enterprise, then you become an accessory to that crime. Good luck using your hypothetical to convince a court otherwise.

"I didn't ask where the (other) money came from" is no defense.


What the technology could also be used for is irrelevant. What TC was actually used for was laundering money from North Korea.


So is encryption...




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