美国财政部盲目禁止 Tornado Cash 的举动导致了对财政部长珍妮特耶伦及其部门其他官员的诉讼。由于隐私工具的限制而陷入困境的六名受影响用户已于周四在德克萨斯州地方法院对美国的制裁提出质疑，Coinbase 已宣布 支持案件。
这份长达 20 页的诉状称，财政部滥用其对自由公共法典实施制裁的权力，其决定损害了美国宪法的财产权和言论自由权。此外，这种做法的官员威胁到“守法的美国人自由和私下进行金融交易的能力”。
Tornado cash 是一种加密货币混合器工具，可将用户的资金循环到各个阶段以隐藏资金来源，以保护隐私或增加匿名性。它允许从一个加密钱包向应用程序发送资金，并使用另一个钱包地址提取资金。财政部受限制的 使用应用程序指控它协助来自朝鲜的 Lazarus 黑客组织洗钱超过 70 亿美元。
尽管 Tornado 的代表没有在应用程序受到制裁后立即出现，但原告现在强调，财政部外国资产控制办公室 (OFAC) 的管辖范围并未将其范围扩大到智能合约或软件代码。
官司读 ;
“Tornado Cash 不是个人、实体或组织。这是一个去中心化的开源软件项目，可以为以太坊用户恢复一些隐私。”
以太坊的价格目前交易在 1,600 美元以上。 |资料来源：ETHUSD 价格图表来自TradingView.com
原告敦促 Tornado 现金禁令损害了许多合法用户的隐私
该案代表财政部的决定是越权的不诚实行为，并希望法院尽快解除禁令。此外，诉讼中的原告针对出于许多合法目的私下使用该应用程序的加密社区提出了问题，并得出结论，禁止此类隐私工具可能会对科技行业产生负面连锁反应。
该案例包括一些这样的例子，例如 Coinbase 的一名员工使用该应用程序来防止俄罗斯黑客的交易，同时将资金作为外国添加到乌克兰。同样，Coinbase 的另一名员工或受影响的用户透露安全是使用隐私加密工具的原因。
Coinbase 的首席执行官布赖恩阿姆斯特朗也批评了龙卷风现金禁令，称它可能会封锁劫匪用来犯罪和逃跑的高速公路。
首席执行官在一份声明中补充说；
“它最终会惩罚那些没有做错事的人，并导致人们的隐私和安全性降低，”
同样，加密货币交易所 Coinbase 的首席法律官保罗·阿格拉瓦尔 (Paul Agrawal) 就此问题发表评论说，技术禁令影响了许多无辜的人，他们以合法的方式使用该软件保护自己的隐私。他说;
“没有人希望犯罪分子使用加密协议，但完全阻止这项技术（这正是这项制裁的本质）并不是人民选出的代表所授权的——尤其是当有有效途径可以更小范围地针对不良行为者时。”
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