Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines . Wester...
Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem
lawfaremedia.orgTornado Cash is a deathless artificial being, animated by magical words to circumvent the law.
Prosecution of Tornado Cash dev Roman Storm
Long time listener, lurker, thought I’d make a news topic suggestion for the next LWF episode. Tornado Cash, a “mixer” smart contract on Ethereum. It’s designed to facilitate anonymous wallet funding by maintaining and routing transactions through an anonymity pool. One of its core developers, Roman Storm has been charged by the DOJ on money laundering chargers among a few others. What’s really surprising is that Tornado Cash is a self-contained, unopinionated and open source application depl...
Tornado Cash un-OFAC'ed
The next chapter in the Tornado Cash saga just dropped. Last week a court ruled last that Tornado Cash, a bot that can be used for obfuscati...