The news the last few days about Tornado Cash adds another later to my long term concerns about eth, post-merge.
https://sports.yahoo.com/dutch-arrest-man-linked-currency-093926364.html
He got arrested for writing open source code that serves as a shuffling agent for those looking to move eth tokens anonymously. He's arrested because some criminals may use his technology. This is universally bad for freedom globally. Its like arresting a gun maker because a criminal may use a gun to commit a crime. Or hell, arresting an annoying cutco rep, not for never unsubscribing you, but because a criminal may use a knife to commit a crime.
Freedom aside, in crypto, any address that has touched any tornado cash is finding itself frozen or banned across defi platforms. Aave being one of the larger protocols.
The ban is so new and quick that people are legit sending .1 tornado cash to wallets and getting them banned.
And this is why proof of stake is horseshit. Someone somewhere controls the keys and can implement something at the behest of any government or federal agency. PoS will kill eth