Edward Snowden: Sanctioning of Ethereum Mixer Tornado Cash Was ‘Deeply Illiberal and Profoundly Authoritarian’

Three months after the U.S. government blacklisted the Ethereum mixing tool Tornado Cash, Edward Snowden called it a “do or die moment” that people in the crypto community “largely a...

Coinbase Funds Lawsuit Against Treasury Department for Sanctioning Tornado Cash

America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is supporting a legal challenge against the U.S. Treasury Department following its sanctions against the privacy protocol Tornado Cash. The lawsuit’s plaintif...

Cryptocurrency Advocacy Group Says Regulators Overstepped Authority by Sanctioning Tornado Cash

Crypto advocacy group Coin Center is looking into challenging the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over Tornado Cash sanctions in court. Coin Center communications director Neeraj K. Agraw...

Majority Of Americans Think Protecting Economy—Not Sanctioning Russia—Should Be Country’s Top Priority, Poll Finds

Topline More than half of Americans now believe the country’s top priority should be staving off damage to the economy rather than punishing Russia for invading Ukraine, according to an Associated Pre...

Sanctioning an Ether Address Isn’t Stopping Transactions

“To the extent there are U.S. touch points, or U.S. persons involved in such transactions, crypto companies could face enforcement from FinCEN, OFAC and/or the U.S. Department of Justice, depending on...

Opinion: Sanctioning Russia is a masterstroke that will cement the dollar’s dominant role in world affairs

LONDON (Project Syndicate)— The savage fighting in Ukraine has led many to wonder whether Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed strategic brilliance is all that it was chalked up to be. Though P...