The Blockchain Affiliation stated June 2 that it filed an amicus transient to help a CoinCenter case that defends the coin mixer Twister Money.
Kristin Smith, CEO of the Blockchain Affiliation, stated:
“… Twister Money is solely a instrument – punishing the instrument itself just because it may be utilized by anybody, together with unhealthy actors, runs opposite to the values [the U.S.] was based upon.”
Smith stated that the Blockchain Affiliation “stands with Coin Middle” and added that her group helps the “accountable and lawful” use of blockchain know-how.
Software program can’t be sanctioned
Marisa Tashman Coppel, Coverage Counsel for the Blockchain Affiliation, commented further, arguing that the Treasury and Workplace of Overseas Property Management (OFAC) couldn’t legally sanction software program reminiscent of Twister Money.
She asserted that OFAC might solely sanction individuals and property. She defined that Twister Money isn’t property as a result of it isn’t owned by any entity and stated that this argument holds even when Twister Money’s DAO is taken into account an individual. Twister Money is “completely distinct” from its DAO and would exist with out the DAO, she claimed.
Copel stated that OFAC had infringed on free speech rights and due course of by sanctioning the Twister Money coin mixer protocol and failed to present people who had been utilizing the service honest discover earlier than it imposed restrictions.
The Treasury and OFAC will reply earlier than the court docket points a ruling.
Two Twister Money lawsuits ongoing
The Blockchain Affiliation’s transient issues Coin Middle’s lawsuit towards OFAC and in protection of Twister Money. That lawsuit was initiated in October 2022.
CoinCenter’s lawsuit adopted an earlier swimsuit in September 2022 the place six people, together with Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon, Joseph Van Loon, and two Coinbase staff, filed a lawsuit towards OFAC’s therapy of Twister Money.
The Blockchain Affiliation additionally filed an amicus transient in help of Van Loon et al. in April. Coppel stated that the Blockchain Affiliation made related arguments in each briefs.
Plaintiffs in Van Loon et al. filed additional arguments on Might 24, 2023.
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