Is the Ethereum community going to let gov’t thugs walk all over it? Is it going to let the gov’t kill its dream of DeFi – decentralized finance?
The arrest of the TornadoCash developer is not an isolated phenomenon. First they came for security tokens on Uniswap. Then they came for DEXes and told them they could not service US citizens. Now they are arresting developers??
What are we going to do about this besides slapping a TC logo on the Twitter profile pic and yapping about the Big Bad Brother?
Well, let me tell you what real crypto chad mfers do.
First, they don’t cry about this stuff. Mfers don’t fukn’ cry.
They follow this link to learn how to set up a local IPFS instance of TornadoCash UI. https://research.5am0036.com/crypto-research/how-to-pin-all-important-tornado-cash-files-on-ipfs
Then they open their browser http://ipfs.localhost:8080/ipfs/bafybeicu2anhh7cxbeeakzqjfy3pisok2nakyiemm3jxd66ng35ib6y5ri/ and change the RPC providers to one of these
If you are not tech-savvy but still have something resembling balls (sorry for being graphic, ladies, – I know YOU have cajones, just talking to my side of the aisle here), here are the instructions on how to use UIs that have not been censored (yet) – here.
And then real crypto chads submit a mf’ing Tornado Cash mix transaction of 0.1 ETH. They want to censor us? Let them censor all of us. They want to arrest us? Let them arrest all of us.
And then chads tell everyone on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, Fuckogram and Signal that they did it and that others should follow their lead.
Let’s get one effing million transactions going through Tornado Cash! Then we can tell our kids and grandkids that when the chips were down, we didn’t rationalize, we didn’t hide, we didn’t just keep wanking our pricks looking at our cool NFTs and shit, but we actually rose to the occasion and did something meaningful for once in our lives.
What next? Start spamming core devs and asking them,
“My bros, wen are we finally going to buidl decentralized infrastructure – you know, for the unstoppable code ?”
-
Alchemy =
DeFicentralized infrastructure -
Infura =
DeFicentralized infrastructure -
GitHub =
Unstoppable Codecentralized infrastructure -
Discord =
Unstoppable Communitiescentralized infrastructure -
Twitter =
Unstoppable Communicationcentralized infrastructure
Centralized = pressure, censorship, cancellation, violence, jail, you are DED.
It is high time that we as a community have our version of a massive million-strong Exodus from all of these centralized platforms which are insanely easy to use, but also insanely easy to control.
Update 1
A quick update since I posted this – there is quite a bit of activity on TC as of 08/12 (not taking credit for all of it of course, but nice to see anyway). See https://etherscan.io/address/0xd90e2f925da726b50c4ed8d0fb90ad053324f31b. Over 100 deposits in the last two days totaling 2799.8 ETH!
If you participated – thank you for doing so. I think you will be glad that you did not just sit back and observe.
Update 2
It seems someone is making a bunch of withdrawals from TC and is sending it to prominent folks using the ENS registry. I know this is probably controversial, but I think it’s good. This affects everyone of us and no one – particularly people that made a shit ton of money off of Ethereum should be allowed to feel like it does not concern them.
If you are still wondering if this is important or not – let me add a few additional thoughts:
The only thing that is pretty decentralized in Ethereum right now are the nodes (the miners). Come THE MERGE this will no longer be the case – Lido will be an enormous centralizing influence and it will be the point of gov’t attacks and pressure to drop certain transactions.
This is not a question of “IF” but of “WHEN”. This needs to be planned for ahead of time. I hope everyone understands that if validation can be captured it’s game over for Eth.
What will we do when the gov’t knocks on Lido’s door and tells them to drop certain transactions from black-listed dApps? In many ways what is (or is not) happening now is a rehearsal for what will happen then.
