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The Death of Crypto Privacy? with Jake Chervinsky

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Technology, News, Tech News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On today's State of the Nation, it's time to bring back the crypto legal mind of Jake Chervinsky. With the recent OFAC sanctions against Tornado Cash and the cascading chilling effect, our digital rights are under attack.

Have we seen the death of crypto privacy? What can we do to help advocate for digital justice? As always, Jake brings a thoughtful and measured approach to these crucial topics.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Bangladesh nation, welcome to another episode of State of the Nation.

0:11.3

We've got a meaty subject to dig into today with the Crypto Legal Mind, Jake Turvinsky.

0:17.0

Our question, the top of mind question I think for crypto is, we've seen the death of

0:22.0

crypto privacy, recent OFAC sanctions against tornado cash, we'll get into that, the arrest

0:28.5

of an open source developer, we'll talk about what that means, is code speech.

0:33.3

A lot of questions that we've had over the last couple of weeks in crypto and at bankless

0:39.7

and what we really wanted to do was bring Jake into the episode who is a legal mind and

0:44.4

can give us some legal commentary on these things.

0:46.6

Of course, he'll be first to disclaim that none of this is legal advice and we'll allow

0:50.5

him to do that.

0:51.5

But he is one of our favorite crypto lawyers and thinks about these things deeply and

0:56.2

has a great sense of where things are going.

0:58.9

David, what else are we in store for in this episode?

1:01.8

There's a, we've had these conversations both on the weekly roll up and an actual other

1:05.9

podcast and other podcasts have done this as well.

1:08.5

Let's talk about tornado cash and the future of crypto privacy.

1:12.4

And we're not going to begin at the very beginning because that conversation has definitely

1:17.3

been had.

1:18.3

I think we really want to fast forward and see how this plays out and see where this

1:23.6

all goes when we kind of go to this logical conclusion and there's lessons from history

1:28.4

to pull from.

1:29.4

And I think that's really where we want to start is we can actually go back before the

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