@BOMBERuss 14 August 2022 more from that month

Monday started this week cheerfully. The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department (OFAC) has added the website of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer to the sanctions list, as well as 39 #Ethereum addresses and 6 #USDC addresses associated with it. The reason is that the mixer is involved in laundering money received by criminals and all sorts of little things. Users were outraged, but voted with their feet — the assets of the service were immediately reduced by 15%. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik #Buterin immediately stated that he hid his transactions through this mixer to help #Ukraine, but this did not help either: the crypto-derivative #decentralized exchange #dYdX restricted access to the platform to users who had interacted with the Ethereum #mixer in the past. Moreover, even those who transferred very tiny amounts through it to their wallets got it. The Cryptans were outraged again, but that wasn't all. On Friday, Dutch authorities arrested a developer associated with the disgraced #Tornado Cash. The young man was accused of money laundering and now he is probably facing a huge sentence. The most radical #crypto enthusiasts have called this egregious case a "code war". With the same success, it would be possible to plant road workers who lay asphalt on which criminals drive. Or you can also blame the employees of Internet service providers for the fact that there are a lot of cybercriminals on the network. In general, the authorities of the USA and the Netherlands simply have an untilled field of work, and there is something to think about. Developers of software codes should also think about their fate. #CryptoCurrency