{"id":43498,"date":"2025-08-22T04:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43498"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:47:41","slug":"weeks-after-tornado-cash-co-founders-conviction-doj-official-says-well-intentioned-developers-not-responsible-for-third-party-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43498","title":{"rendered":"Weeks After Tornado Cash Co-Founder&#8217;s Conviction, DOJ Official Says &#8216;Well-Intentioned&#8217; Developers Not Responsible For Third-Party Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Justice Department has decided to ease its approach towards\u00a0developers who create decentralized\u00a0platforms for sending cryptocurrencies without criminal intent, a key official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Developers Of \u2018Neutral Tools\u2019 Not Liable For Third-Party Abuse<\/h2>\n<p>During a speech at the Wyoming Blockchain summit, <strong>Matthew Galeotti<\/strong>, acting Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ\u2019s criminal division, weighed in on the issue of holding smart contract developers responsible for operating unregistered \u201cmoney transmitting\u201d firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur\u00a0view is that merely writing\u00a0code, without ill intent, is\u00a0not a crime. Innovating new ways for the economy to store and transmit value and create wealth, without ill intent, is not a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47274696\/weeks-after-tornado-cashs-co-founder-conviction-doj-official-says-well-intentioned-develope\" alt=\"Weeks\" after tornado cash co-founder conviction doj official says developers not responsible for third-party abuse>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department has decided to ease its approach towards\u00a0developers who create decentralized\u00a0platforms for sending cryptocurrencies without criminal intent, a key official said Thursday. Developers Of \u2018Neutral Tools\u2019 Not Liable For Third-Party Abuse During a speech at the Wyoming Blockchain summit, Matthew Galeotti, acting Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ\u2019s criminal division, weighed in on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-43498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}