Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has expressed his displeasure with the sanctions imposed on Tornado Cash and believes they set a dangerous precedent for the crypto industry.
On August 8th, the United States Treasury imposed a series of sanctions against the token combinator, Tornado CashThe agency called the mixer a danger to “national security” and banned all US citizens and companies from using it.
This has caused most US exchanges to block hundreds of wallet addresses that have transacted with Tornado Cash and has even led to GitHub, the world's largest software repository, being banned. remove the combinator code and close all developer accounts who have worked on it.
On the other hand, most of the crypto community has shown its discontent with this type of actions. Last week, it was Jesse Powell, CEO of Kraken, who was against this type of decisions, pointing out that It is not constitutional to prohibit the use of free software.
Now, it has been Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, who has shown against these sanctions during a live AMA he did through his YouTube channel.
Charles Hoskinson against Tornado Cash sanctions
In her alive, Hoskinson noted that the sanctions They set a dangerous precedent, as they represent a violation of freedom of expression.
“Basically, they are claiming that software developers are responsible for how their creation is used, regardless of whether they can control it or not, which is an extremely dangerous precedent.”
hoskinson points out that when a developer writes code, he is expressing himself and that unless he is involved in the execution and use of his code, has no responsibility, comparing creating software to writing a book.
“For example, I could write a book that says This is how cyanide is made o This is how a bomb is built, and for the most part, They are just words“You’re not telling people to go do that,” Hoskinson notes in his AMA.
Hoskinson gives another example, noting that the Linux kernel could be used by North Korea to create an operating system to control intercontinental ballistic missiles. Would Linux developers be responsible for this use?
Tornado Cash sanction divides the crypto community
While well-known figures in the community such as Hoskinson, Jesse Powell or Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, are against sanctions, others, such as the Circle developers or those of the dYdX exchange, have decided to block any wallet addresses that have received or sent transactions to Tornado Cash.
hoskinson also complains about the arrest of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev, which took place in the Netherlands. For the creator of Cardano, this arrest also sets a sinister precedent, as any software developer could be arrested for writing code, something he finds unconstitutional.
Much of the crypto community has been against this arrest. On Sunday, More than 50 people gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam to protest against this event..
The developer has been arrested on charges of alleged “involvement in financial crimes and facilitating money laundering.” However, no actual charges have been levied yet, leading the community to believe that this is a an excessive measure that goes against the entire Web3 and crypto community.
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