SEC’s Peirce Defends Crypto Privacy Rights as Tornado Cash Developer Awaits Verdict
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered a forceful defense of financial privacy rights on August 4, arguing that Americans should retain the ability to use privacy-protecting crypto technologies without government surveillance. Her remarks at Stanford’s Science of Blockchain Conference come as Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm faces criminal trial for allegedly facilitating $1 billion in illicit…