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Privacy is freedom.
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Welcome to tornado.ws (also .social): a community dedicated to maintaining
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the original Tornado Cash protocol and building on top of it!
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We hold to the principle that surveillance is dangerous
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and violent, and that wanting secrecy is something natural
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to all human beings.
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<a style="text-align: center;" href="https://thedefiant.io/tornado-cash-us-sanctions">
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Please note that the Tornado Cash contracts have been sanctioned in the US, where it is considered illegal for citizens to interact with them.
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<button class="tornado-button mt-4 mb-2" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#statementModal">Click to read a statement on the sanctions</button>
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To access the app, find links by clicking the button below,
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otherwise, in the top right of this page, you will find social and repository
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links tied to this community.
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<p class="mt-5"> btw, this website is open-source, just curl it.</p>
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<h5 class="text-center mb-5"><a href="https://classic.tornado.ws/">classic.tornado.ws</a></h5>
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<h5 class="text-center mb-5"><a href="https://nova.tornado.ws/">nova.tornado.ws</a></h5>
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On August 8th, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
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sanctioned the smart contracts associated with Tornado Cash on the terms
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of facilitating money laundering. This influenced widespread acts of
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censorship on Ethereum to inhibit the usage of the protocol and
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ultimately labels all active users for seeking individual anonymity
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on-chain, as criminals. The public nature of accounting on distributed
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ledgers is a flaw, not a benefit. It's the act of substantiation and
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non-repudiation that gives this enabling technology its true value.
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This is but one link in the chain of manipulative actions which serve
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the goal of bringing into question, and thus attempting to also bring
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into the context of legal frameworks, all the freedom-enabling elements
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which define the life of an individual being. If it becomes necessary to assert
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that privacy is a right, it is also clear that this concept has been opened up
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to legal attacks and rhetorical hijacking by malicious actors. These are the malicious
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actors who at the same time do not adhere to their own laws, the stripping away of personal
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freedom is for them simply a means to an end, and regardless of their motivations, the exact
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way by which evil perpetuates has exactly always been by enacting violence in the name of something
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believed to be "Good", which is objectively violence regardless of whether a perpetrator
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truly believes it to be "Good", and should thus be resisted via disobedience.
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All of the formerly mentioned is not only apparent in OFAC's designation, but also numerous
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proposed and/or accepted regulative frameworks regarding digital currencies, as an example
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the European Commission's Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) amendment, and the MiCA regulatory
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framework. European law is puppeteered by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) through what is
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called "directives". The FATF, in turn, is an overarching branch of the American government that
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has legal immunity, and no oversight although having global influence in regulation. These
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legislations not only create honeypots of individuals' financial data, but set out to blacklist
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privacy-enabling technologies like Tornado, declaring a war on privacy. Make no
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mistake, any regulative framework introduced is a Trojan Horse which will be used
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to only sell the story of adopting cryptocurrencies in markets, while in reality
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destroying the safety guarantees of permissionlesss and/or anonymous money, with the
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goal being protecting traditional permissioned financial systems which have historically
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only served to exploit, deceive and manipulate the individual.
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All of this is orchestrated by the same figures that have failed to
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regulate private equity's additional attacks on individual privacy, by accommodating the
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solicitation and commoditization of individuals' sensitive data. Again, these
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people are not set out for your best interest, time and time again they
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have failed the common people. On the profiteering of individuals' data,
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Joseph Lubin - the man behind ConsenSyS - holds the power to
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de-anonymize almost every single Ethereum transaction. Given the
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notoriety and popularity of the infrastructure that he ultimately
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controls, as the majority shareholder of Infura and MetaMask. To no
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surprise, Infura and other RPC service providers like Alchemy were the
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first entities to censor relays to the Tornado contracts. Let us remind
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you, that these entities are actively profiling your transactional
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footprints, for reasons for solicitation and cooperation with
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authoritative figures to void your economic rights.
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The ripple effects of the sanctions also resonated with "decentralized"
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or, should we say, pseudo-decentralized protocols. Pocket Network, which
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solicits itself as a permissionless RPC relay protocol, undertook
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efforts to censor all relays. The sheer misleading marketing should
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remind everyone not to trust venture-capital backed entities at face
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value. Another notable accolade for these unjust acts of censorship
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goes to Flashbots, a MEV-specific Ethereum client for capitalizing on
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financial inefficiencies on-chain. Given that a large percentage of
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Ethereum's hashrate uses their client this has immense implications and
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let us remind you, it is also a venture-backed entity. Last we save a
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special homage to TRM labs, which is a digital asset compliance firm to
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assist with the prevention of potential legal contingencies. Not only are
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this firm's tactics completely overamplifying cautionary measures but it
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is backed by entities that have clear conflicts of interest with the nature
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of the industry. Clients of theirs integrated frontend restrictions on
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addresses that have ever transacted with Tornado, either directly through multiple
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degrees of separation. Essentially restricting and mislabelling the large majority
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of Ethereum addresses. Here's a special shout-out to out to the servile TRM Labs
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customer base that is dYdX, Uniswap, AAVE, Balancer, Ren Protocol, and MakerDAO,
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all of which are funded by Silicon Valley vulture capital.
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Lest we forget, we saw 5 years of publicly funded and collective work of
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open-source software censored overnight. Microsoft - the corporate
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behemoth that tainted Github, once an open collaboration tool for
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publishing software - purged all repositories of the official Tornado
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Cash organization and even went so far as to censor all core
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contributor's personal accounts. This heinous overreach drastically
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stifles the education and innovation of zero-knowledge cryptography.
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Countless individuals referenced the source code for student curricula
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and experimentation, as officially stated by Johns Hopkins University
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professor Matthew D. Green through the advocating support of the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). This is not the first time we've
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seen censorship of open source software, which in itself is a violation
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of free speech.
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The basis of which the sanctions concerning the protocol as a mixer are
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groundless, because of the presence of zero-knowledge cryptography in
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its systematic design. This guarantees, that only the original deposited
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assets that have been committed can only be redeemed, and not
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commingled funds. Peter Van Valkenburgh, a representative of Coin Center
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portrays this logic through the precise analogy of safety deposit
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boxes. It is evident, that the policymakers behind the sanctions do not
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understand the subject they are attempting to regulate. We'd like to
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thank both Coin Center and the EFF as the only organizations to advocate
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and take formal action against this totalitarianism.
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It is apparent that the true colors of actors and organizations reveal
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themselves in a time of crisis, and we encourage everyone who believes
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in freedoms to boycott and scrutinize the entities that have
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over-willingly aided the infringement of digital rights. As a group of
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dedicated contributors to Tornado, old, new, and future. We pledge an
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allegiance to circumvent these acts of censorship. Privacy is an
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individual right that is open to everyone. Community resources to
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archive and accelerate the development and education of the source code
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have been deployed, alongside a Matrix server to align community.
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Active research priorities have revealed themselves at the birth of the
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crisis for the organization going forward. A privacy-preserving,
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censorship-resistant, and network-agonistic RPC solution will be
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actively developed to ensure the accessibility of the protocol.
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Additionally, the legacy infrastructure of the internet is not a
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suitable place for the freedom of expression under the reign of ICANN.
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Thus, efforts will be undertaken to re-empower the original premise of
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the world wide web.
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