Sanctioning Tornado Cash is like banning electricity because North Koreans use it
Akash Weekly - August 10th 2022 (Akash Network)
“The fact that a tool was blocked because of illicit usage is very surprising, and this is very analogous to, like, I don’t know, you know, if North Koreans use electricity — banning electricity. So it’s very similar to banning a tool because it was used by bad people.” — 00:05:01
Context: First-ever OFAC sanction of open-source software; he still estimates “eighty to ninety percent of the activity on Tornado Cash is illicit” and notes banning it did make transactions more traceable.