CEO Harry Halpin of Nym, a privacy-focused project, remarked on the draconian sentence handed down by Dutch prosecutors in the now-infamous Tornado Cash case.
Harry Halpin, the CEO of Nym, a privacy-focused project, recently shared his thoughts on the sentence handed down to Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev.
"The punishment is not proportional either. Years in jail because some guy from North Korea used your software. I mean, people in North Korea use Linux. Are you going to put Richard Stallman in jail? You know, they probably use, you know, stolen copies of Windows. They're going to put Bill Gates in jail? That's crazy."
Such systems pale in comparison to our modern surveillance architecture, but in the 1930s such systems were considered cutting-edge and robust. Halpin expressed surprise that courts in the Netherlands, where Alexey Pertsev was sentenced, failed to grasp this lesson. In 2022, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control issued sanctions against Tornado Cash for allegedly facilitating money laundering and providing an avenue for other sanctioned entities to sidestep U.S. sanctions. Federal law enforcement officials claimed that the service helped to launder over $1 billion in illicit funds.
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