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If someone took the Tornado Cash contract source code and redeployed it on Ethereum under a new contract address today and people began using it, do you think s
by sneak 3y ago
If someone took the Tornado Cash contract source code and redeployed it on Ethereum under a new contract address today and people began using it, do you think someone deploying such a contract should face similar charges?
Should the original developers face additional charges for that?
What if the original developers only published the contracts but never deployed them on Ethereum, leaving that up to someone else to do? Is it the author or the deployer or the user who is liable?
I mean, someone has to be liable if it didn't exist before and then it did, but if it's the author and not the deployer, you could be charged for code you wrote entirely offline and published to GitHub (if someone else later deploys it and it sees use).
- woodruffw 3y agoMy “should” doesn’t enter into it. What matters is whether it’s indistinguishable from a criminal enterprise, which it is.
- thisgoesnowhere 3y agoIn this case the "devs" are the owners and operators and they profit on the contract being run. The answer to all of your questions is the same. When you run this code to facilitate money laundering the deployer gets in trouble and that's how it should be I can't imagine how else it could work.
- GauntletWizard 3y agoYes, no, deployer. The code is absolutely free speech, the application of it is not. I can sell you a book that says how to circumvent financial controls, I can even give a talk about circumventing financial controls, what I can't do is fly to North Korea to talk about it. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61090064 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61090064