The Government Cabined Privacy Tech Long Before Tornado Cash

More recently, the government has gained much more insight and powers of preemptive surveillance into our financial lives. For example, with the enactment of the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970, financial institutions have to engage in record-keeping and reporting in order to assist the government in its efforts to prevent money laundering, and as a […]

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Tornado Cash’s TORN Token Up 10% as Attacker Submits Proposal to Undo Attack

Given the attacker’s holdings of TORN governance tokens, the proposal looks as though it will pass when voting closes on May 26, though it’s unclear when the action will be executed. When the proposal passes, the malicious code that the attacker integrated into the protocol, which allowed them to steal voting power from others, will […]

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Fewer Than Half of New Ethereum Blocks Over the Past 24 Hours Are OFAC Compliant

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