An anonymous troll is sending celebrities Ethereum from a Tornado Cash wallet—presumably as a way to demonstrate how difficult it will be for the U.S. government to enforce its ban on the mixing service. Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Tornado Cash, an Ethereum coin mixing tool. Tornado Cash previously pooled together transactions in order to obscure their origins and make it much more difficult to work out where digital cash was being sent from.
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Tornado Cash user 'dusts' hundreds of public wallets—including celebs Jimmy Fallon, Steve Aoki and Logan Paul
The authorities claimed that criminals—including Lazarus Group, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group—used the app to launder billions of dollars-worth of dirty funds.
