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A small title revision suggestion (hyphens are your friends): > A republished fork of the banned-on-sanction-order Tornado Cash repositories

• jessaustin 4y ago
  Could also be "...banned (on sanction order)..." Or probably a better link would be to "Tornado-Repositories: an archival fork of the Tornado Cash source code" [0]. [0] https://github.com/tornado-repositories https://github.com/tornado-repositories
• Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  Thanks, edited. In fact, I struggled a bit to fit in the original text from the tweet - the character limit is rather harsh.
• dang 4y ago
  I've edited it to something that I think is more readable. If anyone has a better suggestion we can change it again.
• CharlesW 4y ago
  The repo/code was not sanctioned or banned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Tornado Cash mixer was sanctioned or banned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the Office of Foreign Assets Control). Those are different things. The GitHub account of Tornado Cash developer Roman Semenov was suspended by GitHub.
  • absolutelynobo 4y ago
    And developer Alex Pertsev has been arrested in the Netherlands for his open-source contributions to the project.
    • CharlesW 4y ago
      He was apparently arrested for actual criminal activity related to the mixer, and not for code contributions. Jeffrey Blockinger, general counsel at Quadrata, says most developers don’t need to be concerned about an arrest. “While privacy concerns are legitimate, this arrest is reportedly focused on evidence of actual criminal activity,” he told Protocol. https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/tornado-cash-alexey-pertsev https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/tornad...