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New Twisters Movie Promo Lets You Get Blown At The Theater
9.4.2024
I am very much enjoying the return to a late-nineties-early-aughts-era style of movie promotions (like Dune: Part Two’s questionable-looking popcorn bucket), so I am excited to present to you what I have dubbed the Twisters Tube. According to a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Discussing...
‘Garbled Circuits’ Enable Transactional Confidentiality, Encourage Enterprise Web3 Adoption — COTI Co-Founder
9.4.2024
According to Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of the privacy-centric Layer 2 network COTI, enterprises and mainstream organizations are not yet fully convinced of the benefits of complete privacy or true anonymity in any system. Bar-Geffen said the primary reason for this is that such systems often...
Crypto Advocacy Groups Support Tornado Cash Developer in Legal Battle – Here’s the Latest
7.4.2024
Crypto advocacy groups have come to the support of Roman Storm, the developer of Tornado Cash, in his ongoing legal battle.
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Decentralized Protocol OpenLeverage Suffers Multiple Hacks, Losing $230K: Report
1.4.2024
Permissionless lending and margin trading protocol OpenLeverage has reportedly fallen victim to multiple hacks draining $230K worth assets.
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Tornado Cash Developer Challenges Charges, Files Motion to Dismiss with Legal Arguments
31.3.2024
Roman Storm, co-founder of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, has submitted a motion to dismiss all three charges against him, claiming that he did not operate a money laundering business and did not violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Moves to Dismiss Indictment Over Crypto-Laundering Allegations
30.3.2024
Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Jail Sentence for Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev
27.3.2024
The judge will deliver the verdict on May 14, the court said
Heco Bridge Hacker Moves $137 Million in Stolen ETH to Tornado Cash
24.3.2024
In a recent development observed by onchain alerts, the entity responsible for exploiting the Heco bridge and siphoning off millions in ethereum late in November 2023 from the conduit bridge connecting Ethereum and the Heco blockchain, transferred 40,391.8 ether to the mixing platform Tornado Cash....
Dutch Prosecutors Reportedly Charge Tornado Cash Developer With Money Laundering
21.3.2024
Alexey Pertsev, a developer for Tornado Cash, has reportedly been indicted by prosecutors in the Netherlands. They accuse him of laundering $1.2 billion. Pertsev’s attorney confirmed the prosecutors’ intent to charge his client. According to Dutch prosecutors, while a crypto-mixing...
Tornado Cash Dev Pertsev's $1.2B Money Laundering Allegations Detailed Ahead of Dutch Trial
20.3.2024
Pertsev's trial is set to take place on March 26 and 27 in a 'S-Hertegonbosch court
North Korean Hackers Used Tornado Cash to Launder $12M From Heco Bridge Hack: Elliptic
14.3.2024
Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group has returned to sanctioned coin mixing service Tornado Cash to launder $12 million worth of ether {{ETH}}
Arbitrum Proposal to Fund Tornado Cash Developers Defense Withdrawn
11.3.2024
A proposal aiming to contribute to funding the legal defense of the developers of Tornado Cash, the Ethereum-based mixing platform, was removed by the Arbitrum community over apparent legal concerns. Devansh Mehta, lead of the working group of the Arbitrum treasury, criticized the move, stating...
Arbitrum Community Reverses Decision on Funding Tornado Cash Developer Legal Defense
11.3.2024
The Arbitrum DAO has retracted a proposal that aimed to provide financial support for the legal defense costs of Tornado Cash's developers.
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Tornado Cash Reportedly Suffers Backend Exploit, User Deposits at Risk
26.2.2024
User deposits on decentralized privacy protocol Tornado Cash are reportedly at risk following the insertion of malicious code in the protocol's back end, according to a Medium post by community member Gas404
User Alert: Tornado Cash Developers Warn of Risk to Funds Deposited Since Jan. 1
26.2.2024
Tornado Cash developers have issued a scam warning to cryptocurrency users who made deposits via the IPFS’ gateways between Jan. 1 and Feb. 24. Developers suspect that an exploiter may have “leaked” Tornado Cash deposits during this period to a server under their control....
YoMix Replaces Sanctioned Sinbad Mixer for Lazarus Hacker Group: Chainalysis
16.2.2024
After sanctions were imposed on Tornado Cash and Sinbad was shut down following similar actions against the platform, Chainalysis revealed that YoMix, a Bitcoin mixer, has stepped in as an alternative for the North Korean Lazarus Group Recent discoveries by the blockchain analysis firm show that...
GoFundMe Delists Tornado Cash Legal Crowdfunding Campaign – Here’s More
16.2.2024
Popular crowdfunding network GoFundMe has pulled down the legal aid fundraiser for Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, citing a breach. In a Feb 15 X (formerly Twitter) post, Ryan Adams, an investor in Bankless Ventures alerted the digital asset community of the recent developments in...
Twisters Is A Sequel To The Best Movie Of All Time, Not A Remake Of It
12.2.2024
During Super Bowl LVIII, a teaser trailer dropped that baffled a lot of viewers—it wasn’t the Despicable Me 4 one making fun of AI, but an action-packed Twister teaser. The trailer showcased the July 2024 movie starring Normal People’s Daisy Edgar Jones and Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell as storm...
How the Crypto Industry Responded to FinCEN's Proposed Mixer Rule
30.1.2024
Last October, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network proposed implementing a new regulatory regime for crypto mixing services that would treat the entire class of privacy tools as money laundering threats and force new recordkeeping rules on U.S. people or entities that use them. The industry...
Why Tornado Cash Remains the Most Pivotal Legal Case in Crypto
24.1.2024
Edward Snowden has backed a legal defense campaign for Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, coders behind the mixing service. They deserve the support of the crypto community, which has fundamental rights at stake in the case