Same old story with franky1. You might remember last year when the US passed new laws which said that anyone who was responsible for providing any service which makes transfers on behalf of another person was now classed as a broker and would be held to the same standards as a broker, i.e. needing to file the name, address, taxpayer details, amount, date, and nature of every party and every transaction, or be suspected of money laundering. Despite everyone on this forum, all of crypto Reddit and Twitter, the CEOs of various exchanges platforms, many prominent crypto media sites and personalities, and sitting Members of Congress saying that the scope of this wording was too broad and could be applied to anyone the government liked, from miners to developers, franky1 ranted long and hard about how we were all stupid and just scaremongering and hadn't read the law and didn't know what we were talking about, and he and he alone knew the one real interpretation of it and developers would never be targeted by the government. Fast forward and a Tornado Cash developer is arrested simply for writing code.

I'm sure franky1 will have some wildly convoluted reasoning as to why he is still right despite this and that these two things are definitely not linked in any way, just like he has some wildly convoluted reasoning which allows him to pick the one or two paragraphs from the FATF guidance which mention mixers while conveniently ignoring the pages and pages of the rest of the documents I've extensively quoted in this thread which mention every transaction which isn't on a KYCed account on a centralized exchange.

Which is frankly (pun intended) a hilarious assertion. He thinks the FATF are surveilling every transaction which uses a mixer, but if you deposit coins to any other non-KYC platform and then withdraw some different coins, they'll just throw up their hands and say "Well, that's not a mixer, so nothing we can do here! Damn, these guys are clever. Back to the drawing board I guess." Lol.