"If the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change behavior, then it makes no sense to add to the SDN List an immutable smart contract that cannot change its behavior because it has no agency. It is not a person nor is it under the control of any person. By conflating the Tornado Cash Entity and the Tornado Cash Application and adding both to the SDN List, the government has essentially accomplished a ban on Americans using a particular internet tool without any clear prospect that the restriction will ever be lifted."

Today I'm departing from our analysis to read Coincenter's analysis of the Tornado cash sanctions that OFAC laid down last week. This is a critical time for the web3 and general crypto ecosystem - the first real attempt at censoring by a nation state and it's on us to understand the legal case and ramifications.

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Read the full analysis: https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/

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