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Executive director of @coincenter, the DC-based crypto think tank.
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Oct 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ Today Coin Center filed suit in federal district court against OFAC challenging its authority to sanction Tornado Cash immutable smart contracts. 2/ Not only are we fighting for privacy rights, but if this precedent is allowed to stand, OFAC could add entire protocols like Bitcoin or Ethereum to the sanctions list in future, thus immediately banning them without any public process whatsoever. This can't go unchallenged.
Mar 9, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
OK, I read it. Here’s my quick take on the executive order. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a variety of politicians, media, and consultants (who are often former officials from two or three administrations ago) drive a narrative that crypto is not just useless but dangerous and should be seriously restricted.