Coin Center: The Trump administration has not fulfilled its promise not to prosecute developers of cryptocurrency privacy software

According to Decrypt, Coin Center Executive Director Peter Van Valkenburgh stated that the Trump administration has not fulfilled its promise not to prosecute developers of cryptocurrency privacy software, and there is a clear contradiction between actual law enforcement and policy statements, putting developers at risk of uncertain legal consequences.

Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice is still suing several developers of privacy tools and even sentencing them, including cases involving tools related to Bitcoin and Ethereum, among which Ethereum developer Roman Storm has been partially convicted, and prosecutors are attempting to revive the remaining charges.

Coin Center warns that in the absence of "binding legal clarity," the act of developing privacy tools may still be held accountable due to user purposes (such as money laundering), exacerbating compliance uncertainty in the industry.