Roman Storm Trial: Is Coding A Crime? The Tornado Cash Court Battle Intensifies

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NEW YORK — The government officially rested its case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on Thursday, bringing eight days of witness testimony to a close. Storm’s defense introduced its first witness, Ethereum core developer Preston Van Loon, on Thursday afternoon. Van Loon told the jury that he was a user of Tornado Cash, describing it as a privacy tool for Ethereum that allowed people to separate their identities from their money. Van Loon explained that he’d used the protocol for “oper...