A group of about 50 crypto and privacy advocates marched to protest the arrest of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev in Dam Square, Amsterdam. with Pertsev’s wife.
On August 12, Pertsev washoldby the Netherlands official Just two days after the US government sanctioned Tornado Cash, it claimed it was used to launder stolen money for North Korean hackers. Dutch officials claim that the people behind Tornado Cash made huge profits from these transactions.
The protests argue that Pertsev should not be held responsible for writing open-source code. No matter how bad people use this code
“The allegations against Alexey would undermine all open-source software development. No one will dare to write and publish open source code again. And no one will invest in it if they are held accountable for using the tools they have created by someone else.” activity pageFor the protest
Says Petr Korolev, co-founder of Oxorio.on Twitter that Pertsev was not formally charged. But is being questioned about his role in developing the protocol.
@alex_pertsev was arrested at the beginning of August.
1/ A thread explaining the case and what it could do to the open source software development space
#freealex #OpeSourceNotACrime pic.twitter.com/fMJel86QdK— Petr Korolev
(@skywinder) August 19, 2022
“We are worried about him. His wife had been unable to visit him for two weeks. And we don’t understand what’s going on, ”said Korolev.
“On the other hand This is an important case And we are afraid that if Alexey is found guilty That will set the norm for all open-source code developers,” he said.
Nearly 1,500 people have signed on.petitionof protesting Pertsev’s arrest and calling on developers to retain their rights to write open-source code.
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