Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"A jury’s partial conviction of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm illustrates the Trump administration’s selective approach to cryptocurrency policy: slash regulations and end enforcement actions against benefactors, while cracking down on the type of privacy software that was once a fundamental component of the original cypherpunk ideology — long since abandoned by much of the crypto industry. A White House cryptocurrency working group recommendation to expand the Patriot Act to digital asset transactions suggests this is not just a prosecutorial hangover from the Biden administration, but an ongoing priority. Meanwhile, Trump’s SEC is running “Project Crypto”, described as a lucrative “deregulation blitz” for the industry."</p><p><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-90/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">citationneeded.news/issue-90/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Cryptocurrencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptocurrencies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TornadoCash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TornadoCash</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Anonymity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anonymity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a></p>