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The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Roman Semenov, one of the co-founders of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency “mixer,” to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) on Aug. 23. Another co-founder, Roman Storm, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and
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"While publicly claiming to offer a technically sophisticated privacy service, Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the fruits of their crimes. Today’s indictment is a reminder that money laundering through cryptocurrency transactions violates the law, and those who engage in such laundering
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied A district court judge sided with the U.S. Treasury Department in a lawsuit that involves Coinbase and sanctions imposed on crypto mixer Tornado Cash. The decision came as a blow to six plaintiffs who had challenged
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A group of crypto investors and developers lost a lawsuit funded by Coinbase which sought to argue that the U.S. Treasury Department overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash, a mixing service. Source
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None of the “sanctions targeting Russia completely prohibit involvement in the mining sector,” said David Carlisle, vice president of policy and regulation at Elliptic, a blockchain analytics firm. Still, there are “significant risks” for firms operating in Russia’s mining sector: they can’t do business with sanctioned entities including mining hosting
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As regulatory scrutiny continues to circle the wider Web3 ecosystem, cryptocurrency lending platform Nexo will look to leverage training resources, connections and data by joining the association of certified sanctions specialists (ACSS).The association offers training and certification for sanctions professionals across a variety of industries including financial institutions, international corporations,
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The Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund have become the latest industry advocates to file their support of Coin Center’s lawsuit against the United States Treasury over its “unlawful” sanctions aga Tornado Cash.On June 2, the two cryptocurrency industry advocacy groups filed a joint amicus brief in support of
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“An order effectively requiring Defendants to decriminalize use of the 20 Tornado Cash addresses would allow Plaintiffs to conduct their legitimate activities with some measure of anonymity, use their preferred software tool without fear of penalties, and engage in important expressive associations,” the suit said. “Judicial relief would also serve
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied In a bid to reverse sanctions against Ethereum’s privacy service, Tornado Cash, plaintiffs question the U.S. Department of Treasury’s interpretation of property rights in smart contracts and the application of the first amendment’s free speech
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Open source software isn’t property, and current sanctions laws are ill-equipped to handle this, lawyers argue. Original Source
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