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Tornado Cash is described as a decentralized crypto-mixing service. Given that description, all it did was move money around. Is this a mischaracterization?
by rmah 4y ago
Tornado Cash is described as a decentralized crypto-mixing service. Given that description, all it did was move money around. Is this a mischaracterization?
- 3np 4y agoCalling it a "service" might be a (frustratingly common) mischaracterization, yes.
- 8note 4y agothat seems like a distinction crypto folks want to create to avoid liability, rather than a semantic one.
- 3np 4y agoLook at the different stakeholders in the system. Who is the provider of what service? The fundamental separation and removal of custody and trust is precisely what makes something like Tornado Cash a completely different thing than a traditional tumbler / mixing service.