[HN Gopher] A republished fork of the banned on sanction order T... ___________________________________________________________________ A republished fork of the banned on sanction order Tornado Cash repositories Author : Andrew_nenakhov Score : 37 points Date : 2022-08-22 22:19 UTC (40 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | rvz wrote: | What is the point of republishing it on Github? They (GitHub / | Microsoft) will just remove it and ban it again after announcing | it. | | A better way instead, would be to do what all other projects like | GNOME, KDE, Tor, wireguard, etc have done before and that is to | just self-host the repositories instead. | ChrisAntaki wrote: | Hopefully the government can identify any forks that achieve | meaningful TVL and taint the coins | ipaddr wrote: | What would that for you? Why the hope? | coolspot wrote: | US govt has banned Tornado Cash the organization, not code of | Tornado Cash. | | Github complies to sanctions by removing all repositories owned | by sanctioned organization. Doesn't mean you can't have a copy | of their code. | ChrisAntaki wrote: | That's good to hear, because the code itself should be | considered free speech | toomuchtodo wrote: | Platforms have the right as is to deplatform undesirable | speech, including code. Social media platforms do this | daily (speech, not code). | | Freedom of speech protects you from your government. | cmroanirgo wrote: | The author explains why it's on GH. | | > _I've worked with this code as a researcher and I use it to | teach my classes, so it's important to me that it stays easily- | accessible on a major site like GitHub. (This is not the only | copy, in fact it's a fork of someone else's.)_ | seestem wrote: | I think this is about proving a point. The point being "code is | free speech" and to not let GitHub / Microsoft slide and set a | precedent that takes us back 30 years. | ChrisAntaki wrote: | Tornado needs TVL to effectively launder money for criminals. | Forks without much TVL don't seem that dangerous | babyshake wrote: | I wonder if it is possible to have a variation of Tornado where | the TVL automatically moves to a new deployment at a new random | address every N blocks, so that it's not as simple to have | specific addresses sanctioned. I don't know Tornado very well | and don't know if this would be possible. | Retr0id wrote: | TVL is not a property of the source code. | charcircuit wrote: | This is a fork of the code. It's not a new deployment. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-22 23:00 UTC)