The US DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm, of Washington, and Roman Semenov, a Russian national, with money laundering and sanctions violations
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Discussion
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@thejusticedept
Justice Department
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Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations Roman Storm and Roman Semenov Charged with Operating the Tornado Cash Service, Laundering More Than $1 Billion in Criminal Proceeds https://www.justice.gov/...
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@fbi
@fbi
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Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations. Learn more: https://www.fbi.gov/... [image]
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@twobitidiot
@twobitidiot
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The USG failed to prevent or directly caused: 9/11 Mass suffering in Iraq Mass suffering in Libya Mass suffering in Yemen Mass suffering in Aghanistan Mass suffering in Syria The Rise of ISIS The Ukraine War They caught: One developer that helped you send digital cash safely.
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@udiwertheimer
Udi Wertheimer
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The (semi) popular bitcoin privacy solutions are just as vulnerable as Tornado Cash, if not worse: 1. Require centralized server to run 2. Servers charge a fee 3. Servers can choose to blacklist participants 4. Founders are doxxed Bitcoin needs better privacy solutions.
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@coinbureau
@coinbureau
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Privacy is a fundamental human right. The same goes for financial privacy. If all the Tornado Cash devs did was write code, their arrest is an infringement on those rights.
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@evan_van_ness
@evan_van_ness
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It sure sounds like the Tornado Cash devs got indicted on...basically nothing Pure hearsay That's really the best they have after years? [image]
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@valkenburgh
Peter Van Valkenburgh
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Here are our initial thoughts on today's Tornado Cash indictment. The factual allegations of unlicensed money transmission are in conflict with FinCEN's longstanding guidance that an “anonymizing software provider is not a money transmitter.” https://www.coincenter.org/...
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@scott_lew_is
@scott_lew_is
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free the tornado cash devs. overreach of federal authority. cryptography is not a crime.
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@jp_koning
John Paul Koning
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@naomibrockwell Reading through the indictment, the DoJ alleges that they still had control of the Tornado Cash UI. [image]
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@jp_koning
John Paul Koning
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It was always indisputable that there was someone in the Tornado Cash stack engaged in money laundering. The question was who. Well, we now know who the guilty party is: https://www.justice.gov/...
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@aaschapiro
Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Has anyone reported which “California-based VC firm” gave the Tornado Cash guys $900,000? [image]
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@neerajka
Neeraj K Agrawal
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New Tornado Cash indictments seem to run counter to FinCEN guidance Coin Center's initial thoughts on a case that could potentially criminalize the publication of software code https://www.coincenter.org/...
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@naomibrockwell
Naomi Brockwell
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Tornado Cash Devs created a decentralized technology for financial privacy. Now they're being held liable for events that took place years after they'd destroyed their admin keys. We must push back against the attack on privacy. Financial privacy is vital for a free society.
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@chrisblec
Chris Blec
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The Tornado Cash indictment is so full of misleading nonsense that it's a bit shocking. Of course Semenov would say the below. Because he didn't have the ability to change the smart contract logic. They present it here as if he's somehow lying and trying to evade the law. [image]
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@zachherbert
@zachherbert
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The government just ruined two lives - and I can't figure out what law was broken. Money transmission? Tornado Cash is noncustodial. Profiting because bad people used Tornado Cash? Companies profit from bad people using their services every single day. Extremely dystopian.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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The Tornado cash founders have been charged with money laundering for operating a privacy-preserving mixer. https://www.justice.gov/...
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@bitfinexed
@bitfinexed
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Binance and Tether are up next. Both are laundering money for terrorist organizations. Knowingly.
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@wagieeacc
Martin Shkreli
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i see the crypto thugz team will be expanding welcome, i will be your orientation guide
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@pt
Parker
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Huge if true. «The judge overseeing the case ruled that Tornado Cash can be sanctioned as an entity - despite its decentralized nature - and as such fell under the jurisdiction of OFAC. Specifically, the judge said, “The entity is composed of its founders, its developers, and its…
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r/CryptoCurrency
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New Tornado Cash indictments seem to run counter to FinCEN guidance - Our initial thoughts on a case that could potentially criminalize the publication of software code