The Fight for Privacy
summary
History of tornado cash (second SNARK deployment with a ~1,000‑person trusted setup) and the legal fallout after ~$600M from a video game hack flows through it; contracts are immutable, admin keys absent, and ETH pooled falls from ~250k to 100k then rises ~40% post‑sanction. Courts convict maintainers despite no custody and note impossibility of blocking use. A working demo of privacy pools (dual proofs, Merkle root whitelist) exists, audited with bugs and re‑audit pending; Oxo beta and hiring aim to ship compliant privacy.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Privacy fight introduction
- 1:45Why privacy matters
- 3:12Tornado Cash origins
- 4:15Tornado Cash sanctions
- 6:21Legal fallout and reactions
- 8:06Roman Storm arrest
- 9:56Legal defense efforts
- 12:43Compliance tools response
- 14:29Devs couldn’t stop it
- 16:18Disproportionate legal action
- 17:42Free Alexei and Roman
- 19:08Privacy Pools introduction
- 21:13Privacy Pools technicals
- 23:00Conclusion and future
