Tornado Cash dev ruled liable for all illicit use, despite no ability to prevent it ‼️ We'll break down both the ruling itself and the craziness of the precedent set here by the case against Alex Pertsev, a developer and co-founder of the @TornadoCash project 🧵

Conclusion In a complete victory for the Dutch government, Alex Pertsev was given the longest possible sentence, despite his complete inability to prevent illicit usage on Tornado Cash. In doing so, the Dutch court system has set a heinous precedent, declaring that any developer of a decentralized, unstoppable protocol or tool should be held responsible and criminally liable for all of its usage in perpetuity. This verdict could have wide-reaching implications, as much of the privacy landscape relies on decentralized, unstoppable tools or protocols like the Tor network, Bitcoin, Monero, SimpleX, and many others. I urge those of you reading this to consider the implications of this conviction and do everything you can to encourage, sustain, and defend open-source developers working on privacy tools. We are officially in the "then they fight you" stage. Lastly, we at Freedom.Tech continue to stand with Alex despite this conviction. #FreeAlex.