Today, Matthew Gallowe, AAAAG, in the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Justice (DOJ), recently delivered an event hosted by the American Innovation Project, which no longer has to the extent that the Ministry of Justice is no longer the trial of open source encryption developers who have no intention.
AAG Galeotti began his speech by informing the public that the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DAG) Todd Blanche had asked Galeotti to speak to the public about the Ministry of Justice’s focus on “equal law enforcement of the law” in the area of digital assets.
In the conversation of Aaag Galeotti, he pointed out Dag Blanche note issued in AprilWhere Dag Blache stated that the Ministry of Justice will end its organization through the enforcement approach, which the Biden administration has been popular, because it is related to the encryption industry and encryption developers.
Aaag Galeotti reiterated some points from the Blanche Memorandum, which produces a number of quotable moments in this process.
Below are some of the high notes that he set:
“The administration will not use federal criminal laws to design a new regulatory system on the digital asset industry. The administration will not use the accusation regulations as a tool to create a law.
“Our view is that just writing a symbol without a bad intention is not a crime. Creating new ways of the economy to store value and subject wealth without a bad intention is not a crime.”
“In general, the developers of neutral tools, without any criminal intention, should not bear the responsibility for the misuse of another person for these tools. If the third party’s misuse violates the criminal law, the third party-and not the developer should not be tried.”
Serious voices of the encryption industry have published some of these promising quotes on X:
While the other prominent characters of this industry expressed their doubts, while highlighting some quotes from the Aaag Galeotti letter, which left a cause of concern:
After I listened to talking to myself, I would like to say that I moved away from feeling optimistic, or even optimistic about caution. (Maybe I feel a little latter.)
Mostly, though, I feel healthy, and the most compared to Van Valclaberg, where it seems that the AAG Galeotti left the door open to more overcoming the prosecutors by the Ministry of Justice.
In other words, I believe that the likes of Samourai and Roman Storm, co -founder of Tornado Cash, will remain trial in the wake of this speech, especially through some comments related to AAG Galeotti in the last half of it.
These comments included the following (unsupported parts of the context offers) are included:
If the developer contributes only to a symbol to an open source project Without a specific intention to help criminal behavior, help, incite a specific crime, or join a criminal plotHe or she is criminally irresponsible. “
As the DAG note shows, the Ministry of Justice will not charge the charges of organizational violations in cases that involve digital assets, such as the unlicensed funds that are transferred under 1960 (B) (1) (a) or (b), in the absence of evidence that the defendant is aware of the legal requirements specified and violates them intentionally. (However), under certain circumstances, we may bring cases under 1960 (B) (1) (c), which prohibits the transfer of the money that the defendant knows from a criminal defense or aims to use it to support illegal activity.“
“When the evidence shows that the programs are truly decentralized and only lead to the automation of peer transactions to a counterpart, and where a third party does not have control and control of the user’s assets, the new charges will not be approved 1960 (B) (1) (c) against a third party. Nevertheless, if the criminal intention is present, the other charges may be appropriate-all the behavior of the subject and the services they provide from one side will be considered to the tip.“
After covering both Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash, I saw a lot of “evidence” used to clarify the criminal intention of developers in both cases.
Many of them were a letter related to developers who interact with poor actors using the program they created in illegal activities, including cases where they seem to wander.
The most terrible cases of this existence when Samurai developers invited the few Russian to use their service to evade the sanctions:
Now, if you are talking clearly, one of the main lessons that the encryption developers should have learned from the Samourai and Tornado cash case Don’t even joke about the bad actors who use your service.
However, it is not illegal to go out on this topic, and in the case of the Roman storm, he made efforts to prevent bad actors from using Tornado Cash, including the implementation of Oracle Oracle on the front end of Tornado Cash.
But I go out a little here …
The point I try to clarify is that AAG Galeotti’s comments on criminal intent can be widely explained, and for this reason, it breaks many of the most positive points he made about the Ministry of Justice does not aim to prosecute encryption developers.
Therefore, I agree with Van Valkenburgh in that we must continue to press Congress to get a safe port through the language in Blockchain (BRCA)Some of the language that was included in The last draft of the clarity lawAnd the battle of the main battles in court.
Because, even in the aftermath of this positive conversation, apparently from AAG Galeotti, developers are still in danger.
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