Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, August 12th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Dutch authorities have arrested a developer related to tornado cash.

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Dutch authorities have arrested a suspected tornado cash developer in

Amsterdam two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixing service quoting

the block. The F I O D arrested an unidentified 29-year-old man in

Amsterdam according to the statement. He is suspected of involvement in

concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering

through the mixing service tornado cash which allows users to obscure

blockchain-based transactions. A spokesperson for FIOD declined to comment on the suspect's identity when contacted by the

block.

These advanced technologies such as decentralized organizations that may facilitate money laundering

are receiving extra attention from the F-I-O-D, the agency said, adding that it may make further arrests.

The agency also claimed that the people behind the organization, not specifying if that's

the developers who coded it, or members of the Dow that runs it, made large-scale

profits from these transactions, end quote.

Now people are upset about this because, quoting him Gajira, they arrested a guy for writing some

code instead of going after those that used said code for illegal purposes.

While they're at it, they better arrest Tim Berners-Lee for all the illegal activity happening on the web.

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