Gate News bot message, the Ethereum Foundation recently announced a legal defense donation of 500,000 USD to Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash, and promised to provide an additional 750,000 USD in community donations.
The Storm team stated that this amount of money is sufficient to cover his remaining legal fees. The foundation posted on X: "Privacy is reasonable, writing code is not a crime."
Storm will stand trial next month for alleged conspiracy to launder money and violate U.S. sanctions.
Many industry insiders believe that these accusations criminalize open source software. This case has become the focal point of the debate over privacy, decentralization, and the boundaries of developer responsibility.
Storm wrote on X: "The Department of Justice wants to bury DeFi, saying I should control it, add KYC, and shouldn’t develop it. If I lose, DeFi will go with me."
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The Ethereum Foundation donated $500,000 to support the defense of Tornado Cash developers: code is not a crime.
Gate News bot message, the Ethereum Foundation recently announced a legal defense donation of 500,000 USD to Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash, and promised to provide an additional 750,000 USD in community donations.
The Storm team stated that this amount of money is sufficient to cover his remaining legal fees. The foundation posted on X: "Privacy is reasonable, writing code is not a crime."
Storm will stand trial next month for alleged conspiracy to launder money and violate U.S. sanctions.
Many industry insiders believe that these accusations criminalize open source software. This case has become the focal point of the debate over privacy, decentralization, and the boundaries of developer responsibility.
Storm wrote on X: "The Department of Justice wants to bury DeFi, saying I should control it, add KYC, and shouldn’t develop it. If I lose, DeFi will go with me."
Source: DL News