i have to say i am disappointed to see the EFF defend a project that is literally money laundering as a service, but i'm not surprised given the direction of the organization in recent years.
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EFF takes Zcash donations including via a shielded address (eff.org/pages/other-wa).
Tornado Cash is essentially a port of Zcash shielded transactions to an Ethereum smart contract.
It's be pretty hypocritical to use it but not speak out when devs get arrested for writing it.
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lets be clear here. the devs are not being arrested for writing code. they are being arrested for standing up a service which allows sanctioned entities to launder funds, which is actually a crime
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Tornado Cash isn't a service they hosted and still works despite being sanctioned by OFAC.
EFF has an Ethereum address posted there and has received money which went through Tornado Cash. Their address is one of many now blocked by services strangely interpreting it that way.
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Tornado Cash isn't any different from Zcash shielded pools. The same reasoning could be applied to Zcash, Monero and other private cryptocurrencies. They're doing the same thing as the Tornado Cash developers: publishing software usable by anyone for making private transactions.
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yeah my understanding of $ZEC shielded addresses is that they are not mixing other people's funds. they have thought about this problem, at least from reading the various papers on the topic.
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Tornado Cash uses zk-SNARKs and was based on Zcash. It had a similar trusted setup ceremony resembling Zcash. It isn't a 'mixer' any more than a Zcash shielded pool is a mixer and it wasn't based on obfuscation. You're talking about it as it was a service mixing people's money.