######################################## 🌪️ Tornado.cash 🌪️ @TornadoCash A fully decentralized protocol for private transactions on Ethereum. Joined July 2019 Tweets 446 Following 268 Followers 52,734 Likes 1,627 29 Photos and videos 🌐 Today we are witnesses of a crucial event in @TornadoCash history. 🌪 Tornado Cash Classic UI is now fully open-source This is a huge step towards (even) more decentralization and transparency. Fork, code & build with TC DAO anons 😎 tornado-cash.medium.com/torn… Tornado Cash Classic UI is now Open Source By making our Tornado Cash Classic UI open source, our DAO takes a huge step towards transparency. One of many valid use cases of privacy protocols: donating to a cause that might get you in trouble if done publicly @VitalikButerin Replying to @technocrypto I'll out myself as someone who has used TC to donate to this exact cause. Martin Köppelmann 🇺🇦 @koeppelmann Seems like USDC has indeed blacklisted the @TornadoCash contracts, meaning if you had USDC deposited in Tornado you can not access it anymore even if everything you did was perfectly legit and legal. Dylan LeClair 🟠 @DylanLeClair_ NEW: @circlepay's USDC has officially blacklisted every Ethereum address sanctioned by the US Treasury. 🥸 Do you know #TakeMyMuffin (@TMM66131654)? 😎 @TornadoCash sponsors this cartoon, go watch it Tornadoes 🤩 @TornadoCash and @WUTornado tweets are available on @CryptoSlate flux 😉 If you want to be updated on the latest news about the #1 privacy soluti Tornado Cash is a decentralized, non-custodial privacy solution built on Ethereum. 🗳 Last 24 hours to vote on the latest snapshot to decide whether or not the community fund should withdraw its $TORN from Opium and cBridge! 🌪 Don't forget to cast your vote Tornadoes, every $TORN counts and it is 100% free👇🏻 snapshot.org/#/torn-communit… 🙈 ¿Are you a @telegram aficionado? Then we have a good news for you! 📢 @WUTornado extends with a @TornadoCash DAO Announcement channel 😎 To be always up to date on our beloved tornado progress, join us! ⬇️ t.me/tornadocashdaoannouncem… Tornado cash DAO Announcements - WUTornado Official Tornado cash DAO channel - managed by WUTornado ☀️It might be summer but @TornadoCash is spinning more than ever! 🌪️We have taken care to explain you all of our beloved tornado peripeties 😎Enough bla-bla, time for your quarterly recap! ⬇️ wutornado.medium.com/whats-u… What’s Up Tornado? — From Spring to Summer Updates It might already be summer, the sun is bright and one thing for sure… as the world of cryptos rapidly expands, our tornado never stops… wutornado.medium.com 📈 The @TornadoCash DAO is always looking for new ways to integrate deeper within the crypto ecosystem. 🔥 This topic opens the discussion for a potential stablecoin support on Nova. Private payments in stablecoins 😎 What do you think anon ?👇 torn.community/t/add-a-stabl… Add a stablecoin to Nova Hey everyone, As you know, Nova is doing pretty well, with more than 6,100 wallets registered, 11,300 ETH deposited and 12,000 transfers. Since 2 months, Nova deposit limit... torn.community Sebastian | HOPR 🟡 @SCBuergel Ethereum gas prices still ridiculously low, wat do? This is the perfect time to set up your accounts on @TornadoCash Nova and move your $ETH into a shielded pool from which you can move arbitrary amounts to other addresses without doxing your privacy docs.tornado.cash/tornado-ca… Logging in Tornado Cash Nova docs.tornado.cash eric.eth @econoar Wait, since when did Coinbase stop giving you newly derived addresses every time you generate a receive address? This is a dox nightmare now. 😎 We are proud to announce that @VitalikButerin has used (once again) @TornadoCash to protect his privacy ! 😇 Whether you want to pay a beer, your rent, or get paid for a gig, personal information is YOURS, not THEIRS! ✊ Privacy is an human right, anons. #privacymatters @TornadoCash is an indispensable tool for the crypto world. 🌪🤖🌪 @TornadoCash Nova update ⭐ Unique users (7 days): 220 ✨ Total Unique users: 5691 ✉ Nr of transfers (7 days): 586 📦 Total nr of transfers: 10876 🌬 ETH deposited (7 days): 1243.53 🌪 Total ETH deposited: 9540.76 🌪🌪🌪 @BSCNews These #BNBChain projects continue to accumulate a ton of new capital 💹 Let's celebrate the Top TVL Gainers on the @BNBCHAIN in the last 24 hours 📊 @TornadoCash @ForTubeFi @Bolide_fi @SpartanProtocol @iotube_org #BSCNews #DeFi #DEX 🗳️ We need you to vote Tornadoes, it is free! 🔥 A new ARC listing proposal was made on Aave to list TORN as collateral to the AAVE V2 Market 📈 TORN could have access to a $5B market, increase its liquidity & more exposure.. Vote NOW (end of the post)⬇️ governance.aave.com/t/arc-…d ARC: Add TORN (Tornado Cash DAO Token) Listing Proposal: Add TORN (Tornado Cash DAO Token) Proposal made by bt11ba, Head of Community of the Tornado Cash DAO Sentence Rationale We would like to add the TORN token to the AAVE v3 market... governance.aave.com Bear @BearishEquity What is Tornado Cash? @TornadoCash Tornado Cash is a supposed fully decentralized protocol on Ethereum, Arbitrum, BSC , Avalanche and Optimism that helps enable private transactions. @CoinDesk #Ethereum privacy app @TornadoCash just announced it will fully open-source the Tornado Cash Classic user interface. @FrederickMunawa reports. trib.al/Gxu0WLK Decentralized Mixer Tornado Cash Makes Its User Interface Open-Source The privacy protocol is stepping up transparency by inviting more eyeballs to review code. tornado-cash.medium.com @TheBlock__ Tornado Cash governance rejects plan to diversify treasury holdings theblock.co/post/155799/torn… The Tornado Cash community voted against a plan to sell 50,000 vested native tokens for at least $480,000 in ETH. 🚀🌪 @TornadoCash proves again it's decentralization. The last proposal has been disputed, and after 5 days of voting the community decided against it. 🗳 tornadocash.eth.limo/governa… 🗳 📈+200% votes inflow since the previous proposal. 😎Thanks to every voter out there! ######################################## Roman Semenov 🌪️ 🇺🇦 @semenov_roman_ Building @tornadocash and other privacy and scalability related stuff for Ethereum Joined September 2009 Tweets 1,874 Following 353 Followers 8,679 Likes 2,767 60 Photos and videos My @GitHub account was just suspended 🤷 Is writing an open source code illegal now? Kaan³ @kaanuzdogan Sooo.. Is Eth2.0 deposit contract illegal? 🤔🤔🤔 TIL the creator address of the Eth2.0 Deposit contract was funded with Tornado cash, created the contract and donated the rest to Wikileaks BowTiedIguana @BowTiedIguana READ THIS THREAD OR GO TO JAIL FOR 30 YEARS (sorry not kidding) Tornado Cash added to US sanctions list - $437m of assets blocked. What is OFAC, what are sanctions, and what does this mean for DeFi 👇 @muneeb It’s time to put our crypto tribalism aside; the crypto wars II are starting: US Treasury puts privacy tool Tornado Cash on the sanctions list. This list is meant for people, not tech tools. Privacy tools are for every American. Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA In today's impromptu presentation on the Tornado Cash sanctions, @valkenburgh lays out the case that this is an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech. "We are looking right at the chilling effect" You can watch the whole thing here: PaperImperium @ImperiumPaper Replying to @bantg That’s not how it works. Ford makes cars. Some of those cars might end up in DPRK. Ford does not go to jail because they are unable to remotely disable cars in DPRK banteg @bantg US Treasury says Tornado Cash was used to launder over $7 billion, but this figure seems to come from a dashboard indicating all-time deposits. Does anyone seriously believe 90%+ of funds there are illicit and are attributed to NK? dune.com/poma/tornado-cash_1 Blockchain ecosystem analytics by and for the community. Explore and share data from Ethereum, xDai, Polygon, Optimism, BSC and Solana for free. ノーネーム @0xdev0 It's happening. @infura_io and @AlchemyPlatform are now blocking RPC requests to @TornadoCash Centralized RPC services are one of the cancers that undermine the core benefits of crypto. As long as they dominate the market, no protocol is truly permissionless. Jerry Brito @jerrybrito Today’s action does not seem so much as a sanction against a person or entity with agency. It appears instead to be the sanctioning of a tool that is neutral in character and that can be put to good or bad uses like any other technology. coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-… U.S. Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans - Coin Center Sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contract is a tool, not a person. @jchervinsky For years, @USTreasury has carefully distinguished bad actors from the neutral tools & technology that they (plus everyone else in the world) are able to use. The decision to sanction @TornadoCash, a decentralized protocol, threatens that smart & balanced approach to crypto. Replying to @SecBlinken @USTreasury Thanks for fixing this. Tornado Cash community tries its best to make sure it can be used to by good actors by providing compliance tools for example. Unfortunately it's technically impossible to block anyone from using the smart contract on the blockchain. Lefteris Karapetsas | Hiring for @rotkiapp @LefterisJP Sanctioning is one thing. But accusing @semenov_roman_ and team of being a DPRK state-sponsored hacking group without any proof is crossing a line. The secretary of state of the U.S. should absolutely provide proof for these claims or immediately retract them. This tweet is unavailable Interesting that a static landing page url tornado.cash was sanctioned but not urls which can be used to access the actual dapp. So does it mean that Circle now has to freeze all USDC on Tornado Cash contracts? rainbow queen @ercwl People are complaining how centralizing PoS is over PoW. But what they fail to mention is that with just 32 ETH I get to be one of 400,000+ validators who actually gets to make a block. In Bitcoin its just the mining pools who have that power (Stratum V2 has v low adoption). deAlex @AlexSmirnov__ 1/ @deBridgeFinance has been the subject of an attempted cyberattack, apparently by the Lazarus group. PSA for all teams in Web3, this campaign is likely widespread. Replying to @dfern_eth @JaEsf @Keycard_ How about DIY hardware wallet on a Pi or Arduino? Could be open source with open hardware. ######################################## Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh Director of Research @CoinCenter | Board Member @ZcashFoundation | JD @NYULaw | We broke the ruptured structure built of age. Washington, DC Joined July 2009 Tweets 18,759 Following 1,530 Followers 47,609 Likes 12,559 2,410 Photos and videos Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh 3 acres per head and the national mall could accommodate about 100 bison. Documenting Bitcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC "Banning software publication is banning speech" > Explained @valkenburgh during a must-watch impromptu presentation by the non profit CoinCenter. Watch it here and share: E61 @esixtyone Replying to @ara2049 @DocumentingBTC @valkenburgh This court can find no meaningful difference between computer language, particularly high-level languages as defined above, and German or French...Like music and mathematical equations, computer language is just that, language, and it communicates information" -Judge Patel, 1996 Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh The original trading with the enemy act is from 1917 and a lot of it still exists in the US code, so there are fun details like how the government can take your ship and also any "tackle" attached to the ship. Sanctions penalties are adjusted for inflation. Of course, that's where you'd do inflation adjustment, not on SARs, CTR, or 6050i surveillance thresholds, on penalties. (TWEA = trading with the enemy act) @HaileyLennonBTC Watched @valkenburgh great talk this afternoon on today's OFAC news. One thing I hadn't thought about is how OFAC has a procedure to remove named persons/entities from the SDN list. But in the case of open source software like Tornado Cash, who petitions? home.treasury.gov/policy-iss… Filing a Petition for Removal from an OFAC List 1.How do I file a request for removal from an OFAC sanctions list? To request removal from any OFAC sanctions list, including the SDN List, simply write to OFAC and request removal. This begins the... home.treasury.gov Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh I bless you madly, Sadly as I tie my shoes Replying to @hdevalence Crap, I just realized I didn't get to this! Takings! "[t]he general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking." Oliver Wendell Holmes Ian Miers @secparam Because the US gov banned Americans using tornadocash, I am unable to use it as part of a homework assignment in my class on Real World Security and Privacy. But now I have a new lecture topic. @valkenburgh , want to give a guest lecture? Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh I'll be giving a short summary of the OFAC Tornado cash SDN listing and our early thoughts about constituional and statutory issues live at #Zcon3 taking some questions over the event discord. It will be at 4:40- 5-10 PM Pacific time here: Zcon 3 - Day 2 Track 1 Please join us on Discord to ask speakers questions and engage in discussion with other attendees: https://discord.gg/sMNcpwU39qTo view our full program, vis... Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA “just using freely available software to make sure the entire world can’t see my financial transactions. wait what was that noi—“ Iva Nachkebia @Ivanachkebia "Even worse, because of the nature of blockchain transactions, an American who is sent money through the Tornado.cash address is not even able to reject the transaction, and yet may be, at that moment, technically in violation of OFAC rules." #TornadoCash Non-custodial, trustless, serverless, private transactions on Ethereum network Hudson Jameson @hudsonjameson TornadoCash contracts & websites being added to the OFAC list highlights the desperate need for a blockchain with both base layer privacy & programmability. Dapps or L2 solutions for privacy are not enough. Zcash is the best shot we have at achieving this 🧵 Mikko Ohtamaa 🐮 @moo9000 TornadoCash smart contracts and websites put on OFAC sanctions list home.treasury.gov/policy-iss… Miller @millercwl "It is not any specific bad actor who is being sanctioned, but instead it is all Americans who may wish to use this automated tool in order to protect their own privacy while transacting online who are having their liberty curtailed without the benefit of any due process." These are very serious allegations. Is there any evidence? This tweet is unavailable 🚨 We're still digesting the potential constitutional ramifications. Either way, big development in real limitations on your legitimate privacy rights. Read the post. coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-… 🎶The DC hills are alive with the smell of corpses!🎶 @PoPville ALERT: ANOTHER Corpse Flower about to Bloom!! In my almost 16 years of monitoring corpse flowers I cannot recall a more prolific summer: popville.com/2022/08/alert-a… NewTraditional Arch Memes @THICCtorianChad Nothing wrong with copying a perfect recipe. The Val D’Europe is a new transit-oriented walkable development outside of Paris which emulates what people love about European Architecture and urbanism. ######################################## What's Up Tornado? @WUTornado The place to be to get news about the Tornado.Cash protocol & its community! wutornado.medium.com/ Joined June 2021 Tweets 397 Following 231 Followers 1,382 Likes 379 49 Photos and videos What's Up Tornado? @WUTornado About the U.S. Treasury Sanction ⬇️ @TornadoCash as a project has no knowledge of who is using the dApp. Tornado Cash contracts are a tool for privacy, individuals in a free society have a natural right to privacy, including financial privacy. 1/5 🧵 banteg @bantg Only 10.5% of funds pooled in Tornado Cash came from hacks — Chainalysis blog.chainalysis.com/reports… Here's the list of Tornado Cash resources that were banned - Tornado Cash @GitHub organization - personal @GitHub accounts of TC contributors - all $USDC on Tornado Cash contracts @circlepay - @infura_io RPC - @AlchemyPlatform RPC - tornadocash.eth.limo domain @eth_limo suzuha ⚡🌙 @dystopiabreaker so basically ofac can just decide arbitrary individuals are criminals with 0 oversight? is that seriously how it works crv.mktcap.eth @CurveCap August 9, 2022: Tornado Chasers 🌪️ 🇺🇸😳 The World Laughs at America's Futile War on Encryption and Privacy curve.substack.com/p/august-… 1/6 The World Laughs at America's Futile War on Encryption and Privacy curve.substack.com what is the justification for deleting tornado code from github reza @RezaJafery "If you're not doing anything illegal why do you want to use Tornado Cash" is a lazy argument that often comes from people of privilege. You have the privilege of not needing privacy. You have the privilege of not being scared of your government. Mikerah @badcryptobitch Thinking about holding an impromptu online hackathon for TC (as that word is kind of banned now). No shilling of other privacy projects/shitcoins No animosity Just pure blockchain privacy tech regardless of ecosystem. joseph.eth @josephdelong Someone is out dusting a bunch of wallets from Tornado with 0.1 ETH lmaaaaooooo etherscan.io/txsInternal?a=0… suzuha ⚡🌙 @dystopiabreaker when legal fund to protect tornado devs Dylan LeClair 🟠 @DylanLeClair_ Ethereum infrastructure project Infura is now blocking access to Tornado Cash. Infura is the default RPC provider of MetaMask, and is a leading provider of key Ethereum infrastructure. Chris Blec @ChrisBlec @eth_limo why did you do this? Were you asked to? 🚩@eth_limo censored @TornadoCash today while claiming to be a "decentralized alternative" and "a privacy focused gateway" 👀Other eth.limo URLs keep functioning as usual 🌪@TornadoCash is a (really) decentralized tool for privacy Privacy is a human right, anon! How to access @TornadoCash from Brave with IPFS? 👌 1️⃣ Download Brave & go to one of this URL: Tornado Cash Classic IPFS ipfs://bafybeicu2anhh7cxbeeakzqjfy3pisok2nakyiemm3jxd66ng35ib6y5ri Tornado Cash Nova IPFS ipfs://bafybeiho72nozeq2mi6egptem77omhujt5ovpx4jjskg5sz2ti57zlunmm 2️⃣ Either you can launch a Local IPFS Node or a Public Gateway, we advice you to run a Brave Local IPFS Node while using a VPN (Mullvad is good). 3️⃣ After you have finished using Tornado Cash, turn off your node: -> Settings -> IPFS 4️⃣ Choose "Disabled" from the dropdown list.

Pronoun game questionably diminishing to headline cause... https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916 Treasury’s clumsy approach to Tornado.cash is a threat to the future of financial privacy https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-08-09-statement-treasurys-clumsy... August 9, 2022, 5:34 PM This statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns & Communications Director at Fight for the Future. “In an effort to punish hackers and cybercriminals, Treasury just made a clumsy attempt to sanction Tornado.cash, an open source protocol. Tornado.cash was a mixing protocol that worked by letting many people send Ethereum to a specific address, mixing all the cryptocurrency it holds together, then letting those who had sent funds withdraw better-anonymized money. Services like Tornado.cash exist because the permanent, public, and immutable records kept on blockchains like Ethereum aren’t inherently privacy-preserving. But after Treasury’s actions, the open source code used to run this protocol has been censored, and developers contributing to the protocol are reporting that their GitHub accounts have been deleted. Let us be clear, hackers and cybercriminals, as well as those that support them, are deplorable and should be stopped—but not in a way that compromises human rights and the first amendment. Treasury’s sanctions were meant first as a tire-slash to the Lazarus Group, cyberthieves affiliated with North Korea, who used Tornado.cash to anonymise stolen Ethereum, and prevent them (and, it seems, anyone else who was using it) from being able to withdraw from the service anonymously. It also seems that Treasury’s sanctions were meant as a warning shot to projects attempting to build anonymous digital assets, and an attack on the first amendment right to code. Treasury did not only sanction the individuals or corporations involved with the Lazarus Group; they sanctioned all the mechanisms—ethereum addresses—by which the Tornado.cash protocol provides its blending service, because that service was used by bad actors. This is a rough equivalent to sanctioning the email protocol in the early days of the internet, with the justification that email is often used to facilitate phishing attacks. Tornado.cash is code, and rather than identify those who were aiding and abetting criminals the Treasury simply sanctioned that code. Code is speech. Already, the Internet is feeling the chilling effects of this choice: the open source code used to run Tornado.cash has been taken down from Github. And unfortunately it seems that such an effect is exactly what the US government was seeking. In yesterday’s press release announcing sanctions against Tornado.cash, Treasury states clearly that “while most virtual currency activity is licit, it can be used for illicit activity”—essentially a statement that could be made about cash. But as Politico reports "The Biden administration wants cryptocurrency companies to voluntarily adopt internationally agreed-upon technologies for combating money laundering, including collecting all users’ personal information. The senior Treasury official said the sanctions on Tornado Cash would send a strong message to companies that still haven’t done this." (Bolded emphasis is our own.) Anonymity is not a crime, and there are many legitimate reasons to seek anonymity in financial transactions. Privacy tools are important to, for example, activists in authoritarian states where revealing financial information could get someone jailed or executed. Anonymity, particularly financial, may soon become essential for pregnant people seeking abortions in the US, as well as supporters in states that criminalize donations to that could be made about cash. But as Politico reports "The Biden administration wants cryptocurrency companies to voluntarily adopt internationally agreed-upon technologies for combating money laundering, including collecting all users’ personal information. The senior Treasury official said the sanctions on Tornado Cash would send a strong message to companies that still haven’t done this." (Bolded emphasis is our own.) Anonymity is not a crime, and there are many legitimate reasons to seek anonymity in financial transactions. Privacy tools are important to, for example, activists in authoritarian states where revealing financial information could get someone jailed or executed. Anonymity, particularly financial, may soon become essential for pregnant people seeking abortions in the US, as well as supporters in states that criminalize donations to abortion funds or Planned Parenthood. Simply not wanting your financial history surveilled by governments, corporations, stalkers, or other bad actors is a legitimate reason to seek privacy-preserving technologies online. We ask that the Treasury focus more carefully on targeting bad actors—rather than attempting to criminalize building and using privacy tools or the simple act of writing or running open source software code.”