Everybody on CryptoTwitter is assuming the arrested TornadoCash developer only wrote the code and didn’t run the service themselves.
Where do you guys get that from?
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It's a decentralized protocol, not a service someone runs. It's still working fine and hasn't been shut down in any way despite misinformation claiming that.
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The step I don’t understand is how the private key the user receives after depositing is generated.
Doesn’t the intermediary website generate it?
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You don't have to use any intermediary website. It's an on-chain protocol not a service that someone hosts. It still works fine.
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I really have to find out how zk works. Can’t understand how this private key gets generated (by the smart contract? By the validator node?) and safely sent to the user?!
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It's an on-chain smart contract implementing the same kind of thing that Zcash does on the base layer. It's not hosted by anyone. The smart contract is what implements everything.
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Reading up on zcash sounds like a good idea. Probably find a good explanation there.
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