The U.S. Department of Treasury has listed Tornado Cash on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) and prohibited American persons from using the service. Sanction violati...
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Anonymous Tornado Cash User Dusts Celebs
An anonymous user has been sending small amounts of Ethereum via Tornado Cash to hundreds of public wallets in the U.S., including popular celebrities. Flouting Tornado Ban An act of rebellion or jus...
Vitalik Buterin Defends Tornado Cash Use Case…
Days after the U.S. government announced sanctions against crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash, Ethereum co-founder and alpha developer Vitalik Buterin opined on the matter, defending the platformR...
Anonymous user sends ETH from Tornado Cash to prominent figures following sanctions
On Tuesday, one day after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash for its alleged role in cryptocurrency money laundering operations, intervals of 0.1 Ether (ETH) transactions b...
Circle Pledges Action After Freezing $75K Tornado Cash-Linked USDC
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire pledged more engagement to address privacy concerns that have dogged the stablecoin issuer after it froze $75,000 in USDC belonging to users of the sanctioned cryptocurrency ...
Vitalik Buterin, Justin Sun, Binance, FTX Join 440 Addresses Receiving 0.1 Ethereum From Sanctioned Tornado Cash
– Advertisement – Binance and FTX Join the 440 Addresses That Received 0.1 ETH From Sanctioned Tornado Cash. Leading blockchain security company PeckShield revealed that 440 addresses be...
Crypto notables are being sent ETH from sanctioned Tornado Cash wallets
Someone is sending small amounts of ether (ETH) from sanctioned Tornado Cash wallets to a variety of wallets belonging to well-known crypto individuals and celebrities. This move appears to be some ki...
Ethereum takes top trending crypto spot as Merge nears, Tornado Cash follows
The recent tumultuous events in the cryptocurrency industry have resulted in an increased interest in some of the related tokens, especially Ethereum (ETH) and Tornado Cash (TORN). As it happens, over...
U.S. Treasury Bans Tornado Cash Citing Links to Lazarus Hacking Group – crypto.news
Recent reports indicate that the U.S. treasury added several Tornado Cash Ethereum addresses to OFAC’s SDN list. According to reports, Lazarus hackers used the listed addresses in Axie Infinity’s hack...
Alchemy and Infura block access to Tornado Cash as Vitalik Buterin weighs in on debate
According to Twitter user @0xdev0, on Monday, Web3 development platform Alchemy and Infura.io blocked remote procedure call (RPC) requests to cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, preventing users from a...
Alchemy blocks access to Tornado Cash
Barely 24 hours after the United States Treasury Department blacklisted Tornado Cash, technological organizations like Infura and Alchemy blocked access to the tool. The two platforms are prominent fo...
Tornado Cash Sanctions Expose Potential DeFi Achilles’ Heel
Stablecoin issuer Circle quickly followed the US Treasury in blacklisting dozens of USDC addresses over ties to Tornado Cash MakerDAO’s DAI is currently backed by more than 50% USDC, raising concerns ...
Tornado Cash Used For Good Causes Too, Vitalik Buterin Asserts As Crypto Community Reacts to Ban
Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the second leading cryptocurrency Ethereum, said he used the now sanctioned by the U.S. government mixing service Tornado Cash. “I’ll out myself as someone who has use...
Vitalik Outs Himself as Having Used Tornado Cash
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed that he personally used the now-sanctioned Ethereum mixer “Tornado Cash” when donating funds to Ukraine earlier this year. In a tweet on Tuesday, Twitt...
What the Tornado Cash Sanction Means for Privacy Coins
Again, I’m not advocating for anything malicious or bad being done using those tools, but it’s a sign that they can work and that governments are struggling to actually deal with them tech...
Circle freezes USDC funds in Tornado Cash’s US Treasury-sanctioned wallets
Centre, the consortium behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, has blacklisted wallet addresses controlled by Tornado Cash following the US Treasury sanctions against the crypto mixer. Ethereum blockch...
USDC, USDT, BUSD caught in the midst of tornado- Here’s how
The invention of Bitcoin [BTC] in 2008 led to the idea of decentralization which became the mantra of the entire crypto ecosystem. However, it was necessary to involve regulators and central authoriti...
Usuario cripto anónimo molesta a celebridades enviando ETH desde Tornado Cash
Las billeteras afectadas incluyen aquellas controladas por el CEO de Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, el presentador de televisión Jimmy Fallon, la marca de ropa Puma y una billetera creada para donaciones ...
As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind
Tornado Cash, then, is a network of peer-to-peer channels, rather than a discrete company, entity or service. So while the sanctioning document targets Tornado Cash by name, and lays out a series of s...
Circle CEO Talks Tornado Cash Sanctions and the Fight for Privacy
Major crypto firms Circle and Coinbase have been forced to comply with the US Treasury Department’s sanctions against Tornado Cash under Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) requirements, said Circle CEO Jeremy All...
Snoop Dogg, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul, and Beeple Dusted by OFAC-Banned Tornado Cash Transactions – Bitcoin News
Following the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banning Tornado Cash and a number of associated Ethereum-based addresses, an anonymous Tornado Cash user has dusted a sw...
Someone Is Trolling Ethereum Celebs by Sending ETH From Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
A U.S. person includes anyone on U.S. soil as well as any American citizen abroad. Tornado Cash is a mixer, a protocol designed to pool funds in an effort to obfuscate the origin of any given transact...
Tornado Cash Sanctioned by U.S Agency Over Money Laundering
Altcoin News Tornado was defined as a virtual currency mixer used to launder cybercrime revenues. The move went into effect on Monday, according to the US Department of Treasury. Tornado Cash, a crypt...
Buterin, Armstrong, Aoki Targeted in Tornado Cash ETH Dusting Spree
Key Takeaways Someone is withdrawing sums of 0.1 ETH to multiple wallets belonging to notable crypto personalities. The person behind the stunt has targeted Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Steve Aok...
Why The Sanction On Tornado Cash Is A Bear Signal For The Crypto Market
The US sanction on Tornado Cash has now made the rounds and is well-known news by now. The sanction against the famous coin tumbler has been coming for a while, which was not the least expected when i...
USDC-Maker Circle Moves To Ban Tornado Cash Addresses After US Treasury Blacklists the Crypto Mixer
USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has blacklisted wallet addresses associated with popular crypto-mixing service Tornado Cash. On August 8th, the US government said it was banning Americans from using Tor...
“A Major Policy Issue”: Circle CEO Criticizes Tornado Cash Sanctions
Key Takeaways Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has criticized the U.S. Treasury’s decision to sanction Tornado Cash, saying that sanctioning open source software marked a pivotal point in the history of the ...
US Treasury Blocks Residents From Using Troubled Tornado Cash
The US Treasury Department has blacklisted 40 cryptocurrency addresses allegedly linked to controversial mixer Tornado Cash. The department listed the crypto addresses on the specially designated list...
Infura and Circle Cut Off Tornado Cash Following Sanctions
The U.S. government has been targeting crypto entities that they claim can enable bad actors to transact outside of the financial system, crypto exchange Tornado Cash was the latest addition. The Ethe...
US Treasury Sanctions Notorious Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned popular cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash and blackliste...
I Used Tornado Cash to Donate to Ukraine: Vitalik Buterin
Key Takeaways Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has publicly acknowledged using Tornado Cash’s privacy protocol to donate to Ukraine’s war efforts. Buterin’s admission comes a day aft...