Charles Hoskinson speaks out in support of Tornado Cash developers

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has spoken out in defense of the developers of the Tornado Cash mixer, which was sanctioned by the US government due to the fact that it was used by hackers to launder money.

In early August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blacklisted the Tornado Cash service, and a few days later, Dutch police arrested its developer, Alexei Pertsev.The opinion of the cryptocurrency community about these events is divided.Others believe that it is unfair to arrest developers for writing code.The latter includes the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson.

He is convinced that having created open source, developers cannot alwaysA programmer who wrote the code for a cryptocurrency mixer used by other people for illegal acts should not be in jail for their offenses.

"It's like writing a book about making cyanide or building a bomb.Authors have no control over how this information will be used by people.They don't instruct them to use this cyanide or the bomb to the detriment of society, and they don't forceTherefore, by creating the code for the protocol, the developer should not be considered an accomplice to the criminals.He just wrote code that was technically used by the attackers," Hoskinson said.

Tornado Cash isn't the only crypto mixer the U.S. government has set its sights on.In May, the U.S. Treasury Department banned the Blender service due to the fact that it was used by hackers who hacked the Ronin sidechain.The actions of the US government also leave a negative imprint on the DeFi industry.For example, the Aave protocol has already begun blocking addresses associated with Tornado Cash, including the address of Tron CEO Justin Sun.