📚 [$] Tornado Cash and collateral damage

On August 8, the US government sanctioned the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer for money laundering. The sanction means that no US citizen or company can interact with Tornado Cash in any way, all assets of the organization are to be reported so that they can be seized, and more. But at the core of Tornado Cash is a chunk of open-source code for "smart contracts" that run in the Ethereum blockchain; that code was "seized" as well. There are some disturbing implications here for our communities. ...