#61 - Tornado Cash Sanctions w/ DeFi Education Fund Director Miller Whitehouse-Levine

Miller Whitehouse-Levine (@millercwl) is the Policy Director at the DeFi Education Fund (@fund_defi). With oversight from the DeFi Education Fund’s grants committee, Miller has overall strategic and operational responsibility for the execution of the Education Fund’s mission and goals. Prior to joining the fund, Miller led the Blockchain Association’s policy operation and worked at Goldstein Policy Solutions on a range of public policy issues, including crypto. 

In this conversation, we cover all aspects of the Tornado Cash saga, how the DeFi Education Fund works, and outline the interplay between the various government and international agencies governing crypto.

Show highlights:

[1:30] Genesis block

[5:20] Lobbying and policy-making

[14:30] DeFi 101

[24:00] DeFi Education Fund

[28:00] Tornado Cash sanctions

[43:15] Freedom of Information Act Request

[52:30] Privacy & the surveillance state

& much more. 

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