DOJ Says Tornado Cash Developer Made 250 Changes to the Protocol: Is the Immutable Code Defense Dead?

The DOJ core legal theory in the Roman Storm crypto case has never been that writing code is a crime. It’s that exercising operational control over a platform that processes more than $1 billion in illicit funds – while explicitly declining to implement feasible anti-money-laundering controls – constitutes running a criminal business. That distinction is the mechanism that makes this case matter far…