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jnovek on Sept 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting...

GP isn’t wrong, though. Even if the primary value of Tornado Cash is dubious, I’m still uncomfortable with the contemporary attitude of “block first, ask questions later (maybe)”.

JumpCrisscross on Sept 12, 2022 [–]

> the contemporary attitude of “block first, ask questions later (maybe)”

The sanctions followed Tornado being fingered as the laundering service used by Norrh Korea [1][2].

[1] https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/the-100-million-horizon-hac...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-likely-behind-10....

chrischattin on Sept 12, 2022 | [–]

DPRK uses SSL and PGP. Should we sanction those code bases as well?

ok123456 on Sept 12, 2022 | | [–]

They tried that in the past with export restrictions.

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