BREAKING: Tornado Cash Co-Founder Becomes Latest Addition To US Sanctions List

BREAKING: Tornado Cash Co-Founder Becomes Latest Addition To US Sanctions List

According to recent information disclosed by the reporter Colin Wu, Roman Semenov, the co-founder of Tornado Cash, has been added to the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List.  Tornado Cash has come under scrutiny for allegedly facilitating the laundering of billions of dollars since its inception in 2019. […]


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Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon encouraged GitHub to fully restore Tornado Cash’s repositories after partial unbanning. Crypto mixer Tornado Cash has returned to the software development platform GitHub after several weeks of being banned on the website.Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon took to Twitter on Thursday to report that GitHub has partly unbanned the Tornado Cash organization and contributors on their platform. The developer suggested that Tornado Cash’s code repositories are now in read-only mode, which means that GitHub is yet to restore full functionality.“But that is....