{"id":138782,"date":"2023-09-02T03:06:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=138782"},"modified":"2023-09-02T03:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T21:36:05","slug":"tornado-cash-loses-court-case-over-us-sanctions-and-ban-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/tornado-cash-loses-court-case-over-us-sanctions-and-ban-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Cash Loses Court Case Over US Sanctions and Ban – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Thursday, August 17, a federal judge denied a motion from crypto participants and giants like Coinbase which stated that the US Treasury was overboard in sanctioning the crypto mixing service provider Tornado Cash.<\/p>\n

Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas has denied the requests for summary judgment from six individuals, including two Coinbase employees, alleging that the Treasury exceeded its authority in attempting to prevent financial transactions that benefit foreign terrorists.<\/p>\n

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The plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit, supported by Coinbase, claimed that the actions of the department affected innocent Americans who were using the private service for legal purposes. However, the judge chose to agree with the US Treasury\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n

Tornado Cash Vs US Treasury<\/h3>\n

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One year ago, the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) accused crypto mixer Tornado Cash of being involved in laundering over $7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies since its establishment in 2019. In response, the agency imposed sanctions<\/a> on cryptocurrency wallets connected to Tornado Cash, as well as on related codes referred to as smart contracts.<\/p>\n

Earlier in 2023, digital asset research company Chainalysis reported that it had connected almost $2 billion of cryptocurrency stolen in 2022 to North Korean hacking collectives. Furthermore, Chainalysis stated that these groups heavily depended on Tornado Cash for laundering the stolen funds.<\/p>\n

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In the recent ruling, the judge compared smart contracts with vending machines. The judge wrote<\/a>: \u201cThis reinforces the Court\u2019s point. Vending machines are examples of unilateral contracts. And like vending machines, a smart contract is a tool that carries out a particular, predetermined task. The fact that smart contracts do so without additional human intervention, like a vending machine, or that they are immutable, does not affect its status as type of contract and, thus, a type of property within the meaning of the regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, August 17, a federal judge denied a motion from crypto participants and giants like Coinbase which stated that the US Treasury was overboard in sanctioning the crypto mixing service provider Tornado Cash. Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas has denied the requests for summary judgment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[192,29,198,194,195,199,196,193,197,200],"class_list":["post-138782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blockchain-business","tag-business","tag-coins","tag-crypto-business","tag-cryptocurrency-business","tag-fiat","tag-metaverse-business","tag-nft-business","tag-token","tag-token-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147962,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138782\/revisions\/147962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}