On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the “Tornado Cash” software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called “crypto mixer”). “The focus was on preserving the anonymity of the user and concealing the transaction history,” the court alleged. Due to its mode of operation, the court considered the software to be “specifically...