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今天，我想在密码朋克邮件列表上分享我的信息，因为我认为让每个人都意识到我们所处的十字路口至关重要： Tornado Cash 的开发者之一 Roman Storm 被判犯有合谋经营未经许可的货币转移业务的罪名 [1]。Tornado Cash 是以太坊上的一个智能合约，旨在实现交易隐私。 Tornado Cash 仅仅是代码。它在以太坊虚拟机上自主运行。然而，2022 年，美国政府将其指定为受制裁实体，使得美国人以任何身份与其交互都成为非法行为，包括仅仅从中接收代币 [2]。这个案件及其判决，使得编写实现隐私的开源代码成为犯罪。使得接收来自自主交易的代码成为犯罪。科技变得越来越强大，越来越去中心化，也越来越成为社会的基础。伴随着这种力量而来的是开放与控制、隐私与合规、创新与监管之间的紧张关系。很容易忽视这些时刻，因为它们感觉遥远或抽象。但请不要误会，它们正在树立先例。它们正在塑造文化。它们正在影响我们，即在边缘地带构建的密码朋克，相信什么是可能的，或者更确切地说，什么是被允许的。 “如果我们希望拥有任何隐私，就必须捍卫我们自己的隐私。”—— Eric Hughes，《密码朋克宣言》，1993 年今天对于密码学、开源和所谓的自由之地的数字权利来说是一个挫折 [3]。我们后退了一步。现在是向前迈出两步的时候了。密码战争从未结束。它们只是等待着密码朋克们几乎消失。但你还在这里。现在是崛起的时候了。 - Andrew [1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict [2] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20220808 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

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Sharing my message to the CypherPunk's mailing list today, as I feel it's pertinent for everyone to be aware of the crossroads we've reached:Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash, a smart contract on Ethereum designed to enable transactional privacy, has been found guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business [1].Tornado Cash is simply code. It runs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine, autonomously.Yet, in 2022, the U.S. government designated it as a sanctioned entity, making it illegal for U.S. persons to interact with it in any capacity, including simply receiving coins therefrom [2].This case, and its verdict, makes writing open source code that enables privacy a crime.It makes receiving a transaction from autonomous code a crime.Technology is becoming more powerful, more decentralized, and more foundational to society. With that power comes tension between openness and control, privacy and compliance, innovation and regulation.It’s very easy to overlook these moments, since they feel distant or abstract.But make no mistake, they set precedents.They shape culture.They influence what we, the cypherpunks building at the edge, believe is possible or, rather, permissible.“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.” — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993Today is a setback for cryptography, for open source and for digital rights int he so-called land of the free [3]. We’ve taken one step back.It’s time to take two steps forward.The Crypto Wars never ended. They simply waited until the cypherpunks were all but gone.But you are still here.Now is the time to rise.- Andrew[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict[2] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20220808[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

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