{"id":34191,"date":"2022-08-23T05:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=34191"},"modified":"2022-08-23T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T09:18:33","slug":"cardano-founder-criticizes-u-s-tornado-cash-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/cardano-founder-criticizes-u-s-tornado-cash-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano founder criticizes U.S. Tornado cash sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Cardano blockchain platform, criticized the U.S. for blacklisting Tornado Cash for breaking sanctions.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Cardano founder criticizes U.S. Tornado cash sanctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The government has criticized Tornado Cash<\/a>, a decentralized Ethereum protocol for private transactions, for helping to launder more than $7 billion in digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoskinson claimed in a video that the U.S. government is setting a very risky precedent by claiming that software makers are responsible for how their products are utilized, whether or not they have any control over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoskinson said, \u201cThe protocol in developer understanding that we have as developers is that when we write code, it\u2019s an expression. As long as we don\u2019t get involved in the running and use of that code for purposes, we\u2019re just writing it, it\u2019s like writing a book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The code was just written by Tornado Cash.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, for example, you could write a book saying \u2018here\u2019s how you make cyanide\u2019 [or] \u2018Here\u2019s how you build a bomb,\u2019 these types of things, and for the most part, that\u2019s just words. You\u2019re not telling people to go do this,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, in a free society, we generally allow people to do these types of things, and it\u2019s deeply uncomfortable when they start saying no.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He provided another illustration,\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> saying <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cif you want to go really far in the extreme, the Linux kernel developers are creating the kernel of an operating system. North Korea could take that kernel, build a proprietary operating system and use that to be an operating system of an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).\u201d He continued, \u201cSo hypothetically, you could say the maintainers of the Linux kernel are contributing to the nuclear weapons program of North Korea. You could say that if you wanted to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo obviously, that\u2019s absurd,\u201d Hoskinson<\/a> concluded.\u00a0 \u201cBut the problem is that the same legal structure that would allow you to infer blame onto the developer if they weren\u2019t involved in the use and operation of the system. They just wrote the code that could technically be used this way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Cardano blockchain platform, criticized the U.S. for blacklisting Tornado Cash for breaking sanctions. The government has criticized Tornado Cash, a decentralized Ethereum protocol for private transactions, for helping to launder more than $7 billion in digital assets. Hoskinson claimed in a video that the U.S. government is setting a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":34197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[193,10782],"class_list":["post-34191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cardano","tag-tornado-cash-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charles-hoskinson-24-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}