Honestly, the thing that surprises me isn't that Tornado Cash got in trouble, it's that things like Ethereum haven't. Loads of Ethereum's work is explicitly to

Honestly, the thing that surprises me isn't that Tornado Cash got in trouble, it's that things like Ethereum haven't. Loads of Ethereum's work is explicitly to prevent government intervention and it's not like they even try to have plausible deniability, if you ask them why their doing it they will literally tell you they don't want the US government to be able to intervene in transactions in any way - even if the interventions are perfectly morally justified. It's like... ok guys, but I don't see how you aren't all just going to end up sanctioned when you eventually cross the line. It's like running a site that allows adult content - it doesn't matter how legit the service is, it ends up being a porn site. In the same way it doesn't matter what Ethereum devs intentions are, it will end up as a neat tool for North Korea and Iran.