How does Tornado Cash actually work?
When a person uses the Tornado Cash contracts to protect their privacy, they arguably are not even engaged in the kinds of activities that can be sanctioned.
Today Coin Center published a detailed factual explanation of how Tornado Cash works. We worked with several world-class Solidity experts who generously donated their time to look directly at the...
Analysis: What is and what is not a sanctionable entity in the Tornado Cash case
By treating autonomous code as a “person” OFAC exceeds its statutory authority.
Last Monday, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) made a designation adding Tornado Cash to the Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons (SDN) List that it administers....
Briefing on OFAC Tornado Cash SDN listing at Zcon3
Peter Van Valkenburgh gave an impromptu briefing on the Tornado Cash sanction
U.S. Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans
Sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contract is a tool, not a person.
Tornado.cash—the website and associated Ethereum addresses—has been added to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) SDN list (the list of Specially Designated Nationals with whom Americans and American businesses...
Comments to the Department of Treasury Regarding Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
This comment describes concretely why digital assets, and cryptocurrencies in particular, are essential to the operation of decentralized systems, and what the actual benefits of decentralization and disintermediation are for...
The Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act is promising with room for improvement
Today Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Boozman, Senator Booker, and Senator Thune introduced the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act of 2022. It seeks to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges as...
The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act has been introduced in the Senate
The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2022 was introduced with bipartisan sponsors in the Senate today. This is a companion to a bill with the same name that has...
It is a clear overreach for the government to force citizens to spy on each other without a warrant
Today Coin Center filed suit in federal district court against the Treasury Department in a facial constitutional challenge to the amendment of Section 6050I of the Tax Code that was...
A new SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language.
Coin Center files a comment explaining why it is unconstitutional.
Today Coin Center filed a comment letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission on its proposed rulemaking regarding the definition of ‘exchange’ and Alternative Trading Systems. Bottom line: The Commission's...
A SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language. Our comment explains why it is unconstitutional.
A direct download of this comment is available here.