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.
„Изјавићу се као неко ко је користио ТЦ [Торнадо Цасх]. поклонити to [Ukraine],” Buterin написао је у твиту earlier today, agreeing with another user who pointed out that services like Tornado Cash are often used for good causes like donating to help Ukraine.
“Wanting to donate to Ukraine is a great example of a valid need for financial privacy <…> On this note, curious if there are documented examples of TC having been used for this,” Jeff Coleman, co-founder of Counterfactual, shared on his Twitter.
Tornado Cash is a smart contract mixer built on Ethereum, which је забрањен by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) yesterday.
Према the U.S. Treasury Department, Tornado Cash “has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019,” including the $455 million that was stolen by the Lazarus Group, a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) state-sponsored hacking group.
Tornado Cash’s co-founder Roman Semenov shared that his GitHub account was suspended, along with a number of other TC resources, including Tornado Cash ГитХуб organization, smart contract addresses linked to Tornado Cash on Circle, Infura’s RPC, and others.
Source: https://beincrypto.com/tornado-cash-good-causes-vitalik-buterin-asserts-crypto-community-reacts-ban/