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Given the Sanctions on Tornado Cash, Is Ethereum Censorship Resistant? - Ep. 390

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:23:08
Publish Date: 2022-08-30 07:30:00
Description:

Andrew Hinkes, partner at K&L Gates and adjunct professor at NYU, and Martin Köppelmann, co-founder of Gnosis, talk about the sanctions on Tornado Cash, how they will impact Ethereum on the base layer, and the likelihood of having two chains. 

 

Show highlights:
  • the legal meaning of the OFAC sanctions on Tornado Cash and why it is causing complications
  • how legislation is built for the fiat world, and how in DeFi and crypto there’s no clarity 
  • how miners have changed their behavior prior to the Merge
  • whether a proof of work chain or a proof of stake chain would be more censorship resistant
  • whether laws apply to validators in a PoS chain
  • the ways in which the government could provide more clarification 
  • the different entities involved in Proof of Stake
  • the liabilities for each entity in PoS and what secondary liability is
  • how the task of the bidder can be described as a mathematical optimization problem
  • whether Lido is exposed to US regulations
  • how long would it take for a large staker like Coinbase to stop being a validator
  • how a user-activated soft fork works and the conditions in which a fork could happen
  • whether social slashing is enforceable considering it is not in the protocol
  • the likelihood of Ethereum becoming a permissioned system
  • the role of Flashbots’ relay code and what it means for Ethereum’s censorship resistance
  • how DeFi’s exposure to US-based institutions can affect the likelihood of the chain complying with sanctions
  • whether DAI is just wrapped USDC
  • how MakerDAO is trying to be more independent of USDC
  • why US-based companies will choose a conservative path, considering the lack of guidance
  • the importance of educating the regulators 
  • how cash and crypto are the only remaining private payment methods 
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Andrew

Twitter: https://twitter.com/propelforward

 

Martin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann

 

Previous Coverage of the Tornado Cash Sanctions on Unchained:

 

 

Social Slashing and Censorship on ETH

Axios summary of the situation: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/23/how-transactions-might-be-censored-after-ethereum-changes-next-month

 

BitMex research on how the sanctions affect Ethereum: https://blog.bitmex.com/ofac-sanctions-ethereum-pos-some-technical-nuances/

 

Ethermine banning transactions: https://twitter.com/takenstheorem/status/1560690035955011585?s=20&t=59hWdhr8_O-hYA8uYnZJ8w

 

Nic Carter’s article: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/25/if-ethereum-starts-slashing-it-burns/

 

Eric Wall’s article on social slashing: https://ercwl.medium.com/the-case-for-social-slashing-59277ff4d9c7

 

CoinDesk article: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/08/23/as-censorship-on-ethereum-begins-could-this-open-sourced-code-help-counter-it/?outputType=amp

 

Hetzner banning Ethereum users: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann/status/1563146729314467840?s=20&t=ubFhCQqrQyHKfflgMHEmJw

 

Tornado Cash

 

DAI and USDC

 

Flashbots

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