Ari Redbord
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And I think they're going to have to sort of work out where they're really, if they're really landing on, is this a policy position?
And to what extent are U.S.
Attorney's offices going to sort of need to heed it?
My own personal view,
I'm pretty aligned with the Attorney General with this caveat, and that is we need to make sure the developers aren't conspiring with bad actors in order to launder funds, okay?
So if you're building a decentralized service, non-custodial, for people to use for lawful reasons, then no, you should not be prosecuted if bad actors are using your platform, okay?
But, you know, there are great examples of this.
Helix, which was a Bitcoin mixer that was being advertised by a guy named Larry Harmon on AlphaBay saying, hey, this is the perfect place to launder all these drug proceeds that you have on this darknet market.
No, like, no, that is over.
Like Kim Jong-un can't be your target user.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's exactly right.
People may disagree with this, but Bitcoin fog, similar circumstances.
That service was actually conspiring on darknet markets with bad actors in order to launder funds.
Tornado cash is different.
And that's what's always been such an, why this has been the most interesting question in my mind, maybe for you guys too, in my entire time in this space.
Because I think there's a challenge.
How do regulators stop North Korea from using a service to launder billions of dollars and yet at the same time allow lawful users the opportunity to do it?
I don't think we go after builders who are literally just building tech or just building or just writing code.
But at the same time, you know,
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