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> This splits an exceedingly fine hair: it requires the Treasury to accept that the Tornado Cash Entity, despite being the prime mover for the Tornado Cash Appl

> This splits an exceedingly fine hair: it requires the Treasury to accept that the Tornado Cash Entity, despite being the prime mover for the Tornado Cash Application, is somehow not responsible for the thing it wrought. In other words, the "brick on the accelerator" argument. I’m with you here. If I build a machine with no off switch that kills anyone who approaches it, even though it’s now completely out of my control… there’s a pretty clear connection between me and my creation. I have a feeling that people are going to be disappointed when “I built this autonomous thing and because I have no control over it I can’t be held responsible for it” is actually interpreted by the courts as “you built it and are responsible for every crime it commits”

notch656a 4y ago
With ethereum applications someone can just publish the blue print, some random person anywhere in the world can publish the application for N ETH, and then everyone running the ethereum virtual machine executes the autonomous thing (interestingly the latter here haven't been sanctioned or blamed/punished at all). Sniffing out who actually paid the ethereum network to absorb the machine could be basically impossible, and once people start getting prosecuted you can bet almost anyone doing so will effectively do it in a way where it is impossible to find them. Either ethereum virtual machine operators at large is criminal organization or it's an endless game of a cat trying to catch its tail.