A judge in the Netherlands has ruled that Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has to remain in jail for an additional 90 days pending charges. Baffled by the decision, the cryptocurrency community came together to demand the release of the developer.
In a tweet, crypto researcher Ryan Adams plot that the developer did a good thing for the public, since he wrote the code for Tornado Cash. The community member then pointed out that “a few bad guys” decided to use Pertsev’s code and now the developer has to suffer the consequences.
In addition to Adams, crypto researcher Jill Gunter too he pointed that there has not been enough information about Pertsev’s arrest. Gunter described the status of the charges as confusing and called the situation a “terrifying problem”..
In Amsterdam, protesters gathered to demand the developer’s release. Crying “open source is not a crime”, the protesters urged the government to catch the criminals and not the developers. pic.twitter.com/xqTMlEXwK3
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the professor of cryptography Matthew Green also criticized the Dutch police for their move to arrest Pertsev. Said that while he has no idea what the developer did to deserve the arrest, it seems the police don’t either.
On August 12, the developer was detained on suspicion of involvement in money laundering through the Tornado Cash mixer.. Authorities in the Netherlands said the mixer was used to hide huge money flows from criminals and was used for cryptocurrency scams and hacks.
In early August, the US Department of the Treasury sanctioned addresses linked to Tornado Cash and banned residents from using the mixer due to its involvement in decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks and exploits. USD Coin (USDC) and Ether (ETH) addresses were placed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control block list.
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