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<h1 class="text-center" id="title-text" data-typeit-id="1102246">Privacy is a human right.<span class="ti-cursor" data-ti-animation-id="1102246">|</span></h1>
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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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Welcome to tornado.ws: a community dedicated to maintaining
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the original Tornado Cash protocol and building on top of it!
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The sanctimonious ideology that privacy should be only for the selected
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"faithful" few has huge implications for discrimination enacted through
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censorship, privacy is an individual right that everyone should be
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entitled to. The ongoing acts of surveillance authored by "the state"
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not only put individual sovereignty at risk but individuals' well-being.
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This is apparent in the recent travel rule legislation regarding
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digital currencies, as seen in the European Commission's recent Transfer
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of Funds Regulation (TFR) amendment. European law is puppeteered by the
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Financial Action Task Force (FATF) through what is called "directives".
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The FATF, in turn, is an overarching branch of the American government
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that has legal immunity, and no oversight although having global
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influence in regulation. These legislations not only create honeypots of
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individuals' financial data but set out to blacklist privacy-preserving
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technologies like Tornado, declaring a war on privacy.
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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 on this planet.
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These are the same figures that have failed to regulate private equity's
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additional attacks on individual privacy, by accommodating the
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solicitation and commoditization of individuals' sensitive data. 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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If you click the button below, you will find access links to the application,
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otherwise, in the top right, you will find social and repository
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links tied to this community.
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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. Who ultimately want to profit off individuals and will even lie
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to do such as that. Another notable accolade for these unjust acts of
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censorship goes to Flashbots, an MEV-specific Ethereum client for
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capitalizing on financial inefficiencies on-chain. Given that
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approximately 80% of Ethereum's hashrate uses their client this has
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immense implications and let us remind you, it is also a venture-backed
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entity. Last we save a special homage to TRM labs, which is a digital
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asset compliance firm to assist with the prevention of potential legal
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contingencies. Not only are this firm's tactics completely
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overamplifying cautionary measures but it is backed by entities that
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have clear conflicts of interest with the nature of the industry.
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Clients of theirs integrated frontend restrictions on addresses that
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have ever transacted with Tornado, either directly through multiple
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degrees of separation. Essentially restricting and mislabelling the
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large majority of Ethereum addresses. Here's a special shout-out to out
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to the servile TRM Labs customer base that is dYdX, Uniswap, AAVE,
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Balancer, Ren Protocol, and MakerDAO, all of which are funded by Silicon
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Valley vulture capital.
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<p>
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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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<p>
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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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<p>
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</p>
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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 Telegram 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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<br>
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<p>
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Join the fight against the surveillance state.
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<br>
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- Tornado Cash Community
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