Well, seems I'm not [the only one making this reasoning](https://twitter.com/HRiFEU/status/1773089367621296292).

It hasn't gone that far, indeed, but that's what Sjors is highlighting... depending on the outcome of the trial, this could serve as a really bad precedent.

south_korea_ln

I don't think it has gone quite that far, but it is a pretty bad trend. Not good for privacy tools or tech. 

Scoresby

you guys are so scared of your own shadow, laws are only as good as enforcement. 

Muuny

bitcoin

Tornado Cash devs getting reamed by government

> My impression of the prosecutor position is this: IF you build a privacy tools that IS used by criminals AND if that system can't have a KYC/AML backdoor THEN you go to jail.

This is dark. 

This means that, using the same arguments, one could attack Bitcoin itself. Just remove the _privacy_ part and replace it with _pseudonymus_ and think of Bitcoin as the way it was intended (no custodial intermediaries), it will be permissionless and it will be used by criminals. Anyone building tools to facilitate this process, such as Phoenix, could be prosecuted, no?

At least, that's what I get from it based on my limited understanding.