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今天我想与CypherPunk邮件列表分享我的信息，因为我觉得每个人都应该意识到我们所处的十字路口： Tornado Cash的开发者之一Roman Storm被判定为共谋经营未获许可的货币传输业务[1]。Tornado Cash 只是代码，它在以太坊虚拟机上自主运行。然而，在2022年，美国政府将其指定为受制裁实体，使得美国公民以任何方式与之互动，包括仅仅接收来自Tornado Cash的币，都是非法的[2]。这个案件及其判决使得编写能够实现隐私的开源代码成为犯罪行为。它使得从自主代码中接收交易成为犯罪。技术变得越来越强大、去中心化，并且对社会的基础性作用愈加明显。伴随这种力量的是开放与控制、隐私与合规、创新与监管之间的紧张关系。很容易忽视这些时刻，因为它们看起来遥远或抽象。但毫无疑问，它们设定了先例，塑造了文化，影响了我们这些在边缘构建的cypherpunks所相信的可能性或，确切地说，是允许的事物。 “如果我们希望拥有隐私，就必须捍卫自己的隐私。”——埃里克·休斯，《一个Cypherpunk的宣言》，1993年今天是密码学、开源和数字权利在所谓自由之地的一个挫折[3]。我们退后了一步。是时候向前迈出两步了。加密战争从未结束。它们只是等到cypherpunks几乎消失。但你们仍然在这里。现在是崛起的时候。 - 安德鲁 [1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict [2] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20220808 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

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Sharing my message to the CypherPunk's mailing list today, as I feel it's pertinent for everyone to be aware of the crossroads we've reached:Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash, a smart contract on Ethereum designed to enable transactional privacy, has been found guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business [1].Tornado Cash is simply code. It runs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine, autonomously.Yet, in 2022, the U.S. government designated it as a sanctioned entity, making it illegal for U.S. persons to interact with it in any capacity, including simply receiving coins therefrom [2].This case, and its verdict, makes writing open source code that enables privacy a crime.It makes receiving a transaction from autonomous code a crime.Technology is becoming more powerful, more decentralized, and more foundational to society. With that power comes tension between openness and control, privacy and compliance, innovation and regulation.It’s very easy to overlook these moments, since they feel distant or abstract.But make no mistake, they set precedents.They shape culture.They influence what we, the cypherpunks building at the edge, believe is possible or, rather, permissible.“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.” — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993Today is a setback for cryptography, for open source and for digital rights int he so-called land of the free [3]. We’ve taken one step back.It’s time to take two steps forward.The Crypto Wars never ended. They simply waited until the cypherpunks were all but gone.But you are still here.Now is the time to rise.- Andrew[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict[2] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20220808[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

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