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Do you have evidence to back this assertion? > Tornado Cash wasn't some haven for big money philanthropy pre-sanctions. Vitalik used it to donate to Ukraine [
by xur17 4y ago
Do you have evidence to back this assertion?
> Tornado Cash wasn't some haven for big money philanthropy pre-sanctions.
Vitalik used it to donate to Ukraine [0], and there are several other examples here [1] as well.
[0] https://forkast.news/vitalik-buterin-says-used-tornado-cash-donate-ukraine/ https://forkast.news/vitalik-buterin-says-used-tornado-cash-...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/coinbase-backs-lawsuit-against-us-treasury-for-tornado-sanctions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/coinbase-...
- kube-system 4y agoI'll go further than your examples: I am sure hundreds of Ethereum enthusiasts have sent pocket change to Ukraine with it. Nobody was sending a half-million dollars to FOSS projects with it pre-sanctions.
- xur17 4y agoPlease provide evidence, not assumptions.
- kube-system 4y agoI don't know how I can prove a negative. Here's a list of all philanthropist FOSS project donors I'm aware of who spoke out against the Tornado Cash sanctions, and all the Twitter posts of surprised FOSS project developers who were happy to receive gigantic donations from TC pre-sanctions: [] We can, however, consider your sources of people who did speak out -- none of them are philanthropists who contributed to large sums to FOSS projects. They were ETH enthusiasts who spoke up to make a point. The probably made some incidental donations to causes they supported, as a matter of being ETH enthusiasts. Philanthropists use fiat, de facto. Anything else is notable.