Opinión

How to Stop Illegal Activity on Tornado Cash (Without Using Sanctions)

Rather than sanctioning code, U.S. authorities should have targeted the human intermediaries.

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Opinión

The Problem Tornado Cash Raises About Base Layer Censorship on Ethereum

Requiring validators and others to censor blocks would be an unwarranted expansion of sanctions law.

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Finanzas

Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub

The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.

No one knows exactly what the fallout from the Tornado Cash sanctions will look like. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Regulación

US Treasury Wants Public to Comment on Crypto’s Role in Illicit Finance

The Treasury Department listed a number of questions, asking the general public to weigh in on how it’s approaching cryptocurrencies and their possible role in illegal activities.

The U.S. Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the role of cryptocurrencies in illicit finance, and its own response to this issue. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Opinión

Tornado Cash Ban Will Aid China’s AI Goals

The U.S. government forcing blockchains to make transaction data public has dangerous geopolitical implications in the tech race against China.

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Opinión

OFAC Backtracks but Tornado Cash Sanctions Already Set a Terrifying Precedent

A government, an exchange and a developer: The tragic tale of a strategy to cut off a smart contract.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Regulación

US Treasury Explains How Americans Can Recover Crypto Locked in Tornado Cash

The Treasury's sanctions watchdog added Tornado Cash to its blacklist last month.

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