Buterin calls US indictment of Tornado Cash developer unjust

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has stated that the U.S. government's indictment of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm is unjust, The Block reported. In a letter, Buterin argued that punishing Storm is tantamount to criminalizing the act of software development itself, describing the privacy tool he co-developed as a means to counter a surveillance society. Storm was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2023 on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and is currently out on bail awaiting trial.