<story><title>Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843161/tornado-cash-indictment-conspiracy-north-korea-money-laundering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r1ch</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t the developers of privacy-focused blockchains like Zcash and Monero also be liable under this logic? Surely they also knew that criminals would use anonymous transactions and they did nothing to implement KYC &amp;#x2F; AML.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>Lawyer here - you may have plausible arguments about things if you just create software without KYC&amp;#x2F;AML, and you are outside the US or whatever.&lt;p&gt;If you run an actual service without KYC&amp;#x2F;AML, uh, yeah, you are probably f&amp;#x27;d.&lt;p&gt;If you have specific knowledge that a sanctioned-by-OFAC north korean hacking group is using your service to launder hundreds of millions and you do nothing, you are definitely screwed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843161/tornado-cash-indictment-conspiracy-north-korea-money-laundering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r1ch</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t the developers of privacy-focused blockchains like Zcash and Monero also be liable under this logic? Surely they also knew that criminals would use anonymous transactions and they did nothing to implement KYC &amp;#x2F; AML.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylkil</author><text>There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from</text></comment>