Tornado Cash sentence ‘radically unfair and unreasonable’ — Nym CEO
CEO Harry Halpin pointed to history and used Nazi Germany as an example of why digital privacy must be protected in the 21st century.
Harry Halpin, the CEO of Nym, a privacy-focused project, recently shared his thoughts on the sentence handed down to Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev.
During an interview with Cointelegraph’s Jonathan DeYoung at Consensus 2024, Halpin characterized the sentence as “radically unfair and unreasonable” and provided these analogies:
The Nym CEO then pointed to WWII-era history as a prime example of why privacy must be protected in the 21st Century. Halpin explained that during the Second World War, the Netherlands saw most of its Jewish population exterminated by the Nazis due to sophisticated identity tracing systems not present in other European countries like France.
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Author: Vince Quill
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