Tl&dr: judge declared war on financial privacy.

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They made an English summary of the verdict. The full Dutch version should be online shortly.

#TornadoCash is not a legitimate tool

I realise you're not a lawyer but, any sense of how this judgement might have the potential to affect other judgements in the EU (or even perhaps outside it)?

Now do banks

Thanks for sharing

Court is contradicting themselves here in paragraph 6, sentences 1-2.

Embarrassing

Fiat judicial. Nothing to see here.

There's another clear reason why Alexey Pertsev needed to be jailed and his assets seized.

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Maybe we should then also hold all ethereum developers and nodes responsible for facilitating this.

While we're at it let's also arrest every shopowner that ever accepted any cash. They too have been doing money laundring on massive scales.

It's cool if you're a bank though. They are the guardians and trusted entities here. There's nobody actually checking them and if any money laundring meets the light of day nobody goes to jail and they get fined a small percentage of the money that was actually laundered.

CIA agent with heart attack gun pointed at the sniper: "there are no rules when you threaten real power"