Blockchain NZ latest Podcast: Tornado Cash and The Merge

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Latest Episode:

E07 – Tornado Cash and The Merge; Bryan and Jeff Roundtable 1

Bryan Ventura is here for our first roundtable; Bryan is a lawyer specializing in blockchain and Web3. Today we’re covering two main topics:

• Tornado cash – what is it and why was it sanctioned – and the downstream effects of platform level censorship along with freedom of expression and how open source code fits in.
• Then we dive into Eth2.0 (I still call it that) – The Merge – we talk about some of the history of proof of work transitioning to proof of stake ethereum and what people are expecting afterwards.
• We wrap up with a shoutout to Roger Ver and Zuckerberg’s metaverse.

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Timestamps:
00:00 intro
00:57 Tornado cash intro
05:37 OFAC & US regulatory influence
08:34 Circle censoring USDC tx
12:40 Multiple identities & dusting accounts
16:17 freedom of speech
23:00 Dutch jailed the founder
26:30 FATF virtual asset guidance
32:06 is code speech
37:36 Eth2.0, the merge & the history of PoW
44:56 merge performance & fees
50:30 validators
54:47 deflationary distribution of ETH
58:23 Roger Ver
1:00:21 metaverse
1:12:32 fin
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Some notes from the show:
What is Tornado Cash https://www.coincenter.org/education/advanced-topics/how-does-tornado-cash-work/
Sanctions https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/
Roman Semenov https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_
Chainalysis report & Lazarus North Korean hacking group https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/tornado-cash-ofac-designation-sanctions/
Bernstein v. Department of Justice https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/bernstein-v-department-of-justice/
Developer jailed for 90 days https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alleged-tornado-cash-developer-alexey-093657198.html
Megaupload Legal case in NZ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/megaupload-case-deal-done-now-only-kim-dotcom-facing-extradition-prospect-of-united-states-prison-cell/W666X7JXMDOUYVPVRTWIWEOPNQ/
$8.6B laundered in 2021 https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-report-preview-cryptocurrency-money-laundering/
Stable Diffusion https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release
Dall-e https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
pgp privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Github’s co-pilot https://github.com/features/copilot/
Ethereum difficulty bomb https://docs.ethhub.io/questions-about-ethereum/what-is-the-difficulty-bomb/
Goerli https://goerli.net/
Otherside land mint fees https://dappradar.com/blog/yuga-labs-600m-otherside-nft-land-sale-records-highest-gas-fees-ever-on-ethereum
Ethereum nodes https://ethernodes.org/country/New%20Zealand
Futureverse https://www.futureverse.com/
Horizon Worlds https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/
paper cheques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
Zuckerberg on Lex https://youtu.be/5zOHSysMmH0
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Contact Bryan:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-ventura-4a61a8115/
MinterEllisonRuddWatts https://www.minterellison.co.nz/people/bryan-ventura
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Twitter https://twitter.com/Japple
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnijsse/
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Recorded at blockheight 752817. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

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