Yes, it means Congress would specifically have to legalize it. And that would be a huge fight.
A judge just ruled that Tornado Cash is to be removed from the OFAC sanctions list.
The court found that Tornado Cash smart contracts do not constitute property, finding that Tornado Cash software is not covered by the IEEPA's.
The court found that while "OFAC’s concerns with illicit foreign actors laundering funds are undeniably legitimate," "perhaps Congress will update IEEPA [...] to target modern technologies like crypto-mixing software."
"Until then," the court found, "we hold that Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts (the lines of privacy-enabling software code) are not the “property” of a foreign national or entity, meaning they cannot be blocked under IEEPA, and OFAC overstepped its congressionally defined authority."
This is hugely good news for anyone developing privacy software and will likely have a positive impact on Roman Storm's trial, where it is debated whether the court may criminally charge the developers of software.
s/o to all the people that fought for our right to privacy on this ❤️
(this is a developing story – we'll update this article as we go through the information available): https://www.therage.co/fifth-circuit-lifts-tornado-cash-sanctions/
fantastic W for privacy
That's true. Silent payments are not as good as Monero stealth addresses, but they get closer anyway. My thought is if you're going to go through the trouble to use silent payments, just use Monero.
pTo the sender, a silent payment looks like a regular Bitcoin payment. However, on the receiver side is where silent payments actually shine because they are a lot like Monero stealth addresses.
That does sound like fun. You can have just about the crappiest antenna in the world. But if you can get it up high, there's no telling what you'll hear.
OFAC kindly go fuck yourselves!
https://www.therage.co/fifth-circuit-lifts-tornado-cash-sanctions/
sometimes. check meshmap.net. I think you need to opt in somehow to be shown on that map, but it might give you an idea anyway.
I've been running my own local node for a long time now.
I 100% agree and so you should attempt to find merchants that will accept crypto directly and not convert it back. XMRBazaar is great for this. If you need simple things such as AA batteries, toasters, cast iron skilllets, etc. I sell things like that directly for Monero. https://xmrbazaar.com/user/AuroraGeneralStore/
I'm honestly surprised this hasn't happened before. And it's not like you can claim to be doing anything else with an ASIC.
and this is why #Monero uses RandomX on CPUs and general purpose computing hardware.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-customs-holds-bitmain-asic-deliveries
Okay, I did manage to find the RSS feed for coin telegraph. So we will try that for a while.
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I could use some help. I just had to unsub from coindesk #rss feed bc it kept causing me issues with my rss reader but none of the sites I try seem to have rss at all that I can find. I subbed to therage.co rss but that isnt totally crypto and I still need something more crypto specific. Any suggestions? If nothing else I might be able to add a crypto lemmy community rss and get updates that way. #news
own monero. gotcha
That name sounds so much like the railroad government inspector from Atlas Shrugged. It's almost ridiculous.
nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg In v2 the buttons for reply, favorite, zap, etc are no longer labeled for us screen reader users. They just say "leading icon". Not helpful.
