More than 70% of all ethereum validators are now complying with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions. The sanctioned smart contract, an asset obfuscating mixer called Tornado Cash, wa...
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Is Ethereum now under U.S. control? 99% of latest relay blocks are censoring the network
Following OFAC sanctions on Ethereum addresses related to Tornado Cash and other global entities, many were concerned with the precedent set by the bans. Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, call...
Web3 Is Still Censoring Sex Workers
TreatDAO’s website lists “450+ creators,” but doesn’t specify how many of those are active users. In an email, a representative from CumRocket, which is still in beta, told CoinDesk that its platform ...
Coinbase will shut down staking service if regulators mandate censoring transactions
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on August 17 that the firm would shut down its staking services if regulators wanted it to censor transactions as a validator. It’s a hypothetical we hopefully ...
Wasabi Wallet to Begin Censoring Coinjoin Transactions – Bitcoin News
Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-oriented bitcoin-only wallet, has announced it will start introducing censorship methods into its mixing procedures. The announcement was made on social media, where the offic...
Wasabi’s Bitcoin Mixer to Start Censoring Transactions
Key Takeaways Privacy-focused Bitcoin-only wallet Wasabi announced Sunday it would start blocking certain transactions to its CoinJoin mixing protocol. The wallet’s CoinJoin implementation is on...
Starlink won’t give in to requests for censoring Russian News Sources: says Elon Musk
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that they had been asked by some governments to block Russian news sources. Although he refused to do so. Starlink service was recently activated in Ukraine after t...