{"id":65950,"date":"2022-08-17T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65950"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:48:46","slug":"rally-in-amsterdam-in-support-of-tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/rally-in-amsterdam-in-support-of-tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally in Amsterdam in support of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 20 in Amsterdam there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/cryptocanal\/events\/287867009\/\">rally<\/a> in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-amsterdam-authorities-arrest-alleged-tornado-cash-developer\">arrested<\/a> Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev, who was arrested last week in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspect him of involvement in laundering funds and concealing illicit financial flows through the service.<\/p>\n<p>According to the initiative group, the arrest of Pertsev creates a dangerous precedent for holding open-source software developers accountable in cases of misuse of these products.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The developer has no control over how his open-source code will be used in the future. Therefore, accusations against Alexey Pertsev threaten to kill the entire segment of such software,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rally will begin at 16:00 at Dam Square. Additional information can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+0tKJW0Xoolo3M2Ri\">Telegram group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, on August 8 <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> added the Tornado Cash to the sanctions list on suspicion of laundering <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\">over $7 billion in cryptocurrencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Tornado DAO decentralized autonomous organization urged the community <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-to-explore-legal-avenues-to-challenge-us-sanctions-in-court\">to hire a team of lawyers<\/a> to legally challenge the service\u2019s blocking.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Coin Center, a crypto-industry\u2013focused rights group, said it intends to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coin-center-to-appeal-ofac-sanctions-on-tornado-cash\">challenge the U.S.-imposed restrictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 20 in Amsterdam, there will be a rally in support of the Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev, who was arrested last week in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1192,718,1314],"class_list":["post-65950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-developers","tag-netherlands","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65952,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65950\/revisions\/65952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}