> If you want to get pedantic, the source code isn't the tool used for money laundering, it is a description of the tool. An idea. No, that's not right. The T

> If you want to get pedantic, the source code isn't the tool used for money laundering, it is a description of the tool. An idea. No, that's not right. The Tornado Cash contracts, built specifically from that github project, were in active use on the blockchain. That's a machine, not an idea. You're right, that there's semantic space to talk about the distinction, but that github project was directly conflating the two. So it was killed. Now we have another project, run by a researcher interested in blockchain technologies and not someone trying to run a crypto tumbler. And now the argument seems to have some more reasonable weight. But please don't pretend that the Tornado github project existed for some kind of abstracted idea of discussion. It was a practical project designed to be used for crypto mixing, and as such deserved to be regulated that way.