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NY Judge Denies Tornado Cash Developer’s Motion to Dismiss, Trial Set for December

Roman Storm, a software developer of Tornado Cash, is headed to trial after a New York judge ruled against his motion to dismiss criminal charges. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla…

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Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Sentenced to 64 Months for Money Laundering

A Dutch court has sentenced Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev to five years and four months in prison for laundering $2.2 billion through the cryptocurrency mixing service. The case represents…

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FTX poked the bear and the bear is pissed — O’Leary on the crypto crackdown

Kevin O'Leary believes U.S. Senators are “fatigued” and “pissed” at the cryptocurrency industry for having to deal with one blowup after another.

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Wife of arrested Tornado Cash dev forbidden to speak with him — Rally organized

Speaking with Cointelegraph, Ksenia Malik stated that Dutch authorities are treating her husband as if he were “were a dangerous criminal” and that the creation of open-source software should never…

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Crypto Community Responds to Tornado Cash Sanctions, Privacy Advocates Say ‘There Are Many Legitimate Reasons to Seek Financial Anonymity’

The U.S. government banning the ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash and the enforcement that has followed has the crypto community in an uproar about the event. A large number of…

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