Tag: Tornado Cash
Crypto Mixers Targeted in U.S. House Democrats' Effort to 'Clamp Down' on Money Laundering
Several Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have a bill coming this week to target money laundering through cryptocurrency mixing serv [...]
The U.S. Government’s Hypocritical Case Against Tornado Cash
You would think the government would be against an online privacy service facilitating money laundering. But it actually created one of the best, says [...]
Poloniex Hacker Sends $3.3M Worth of Ether to Tornado Cash
A hacker that stole $125 million from Poloniex's hot wallets has sent 1,100 ether {{ETH}} to sanctioned coin mixer Tornado Cash, according to blockcha [...]
Distilling the Tornado Cash and Samourai Suits
According to the Department of Justice, the answer is yes. The Tornado Cash developers didn’t just build an open-source piece of software; they develo [...]
DOJ Disputes Roman Storm’s Characterization of Tornado Cash Operations in New Filing
The DOJ charged Storm, alongside fellow developer Roman Semenov, with conspiring to commit money laundering, conspiring to operate an unlicensed money [...]
Samourai Wallet Charges Raise Existential Questions for Privacy Tech
There is much to say about Samourai Wallet’s co-founders Keonne Rodriguez, 35, and William Lonergan Hill’s, 65, op-sec (i.e. “operational security), o [...]
Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Moves to Dismiss Indictment Over Crypto-Laundering Allegations
Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Moves to Dismiss Indictment Over Crypto-Laundering Allegations
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Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Jail Sentence for Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev
Pertsev has been accused of laundering $1.2 billion worth of crypto through the anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, the Dutch prosecutors detailed in an in [...]
Tornado Cash Dev Pertsev’s $1.2B Money Laundering Allegations Detailed Ahead of Dutch Trial
The indictment, seen by CoinDesk, says that between July 9, 2019 and Aug. 10, 2022, "at least in the Netherlands and/or in Russia and/or the United St [...]
North Korean Hackers Used Tornado Cash to Launder $12M From Heco Bridge Hack: Elliptic
Tornado Cash was hit by U.S. sanctions in August 2022. This spurred Lazarus Group to use another mixer, Sinbad, to obfuscate their ill-gotten gains. H [...]
Tornado Cash Reportedly Suffers Backend Exploit, User Deposits at Risk
User deposits on decentralized privacy protocol Tornado Cash are reportedly at risk following the insertion of malicious code in the protocol's back e [...]
How the Crypto Industry Responded to FinCEN’s Proposed Mixer Rule
There were also, as Consensys' Bill Hughes pointed out, a number of comments that appeared to be written by a bot. A lot of these comments said they w [...]
Why Tornado Cash Remains the Most Pivotal Legal Case in Crypto
Indeed, it is not. We should have the right to transact freely online, whether it’s to communicate with words or to exchange value in the form of cryp [...]
Tornado Cash Developers Storm, Pertsev Raise Over $350K for Legal Defense With Support From Snowden
A legal fund for the defense of Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev has received more than $350,675 and public support from Edward [...]
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