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A whale sent 5,170 coins of $ETH to Tornado Cash in batches, worth about $12.82 million—is this privacy self-protection or a dress rehearsal for money laundering?

On-chain investigator Aunt Ai detected that the address accumulated 5,147 coins at an average price of about $1,886 on August 12–13. On October 13, it transferred them all to a mixer in batches of 100. The position is now up about $3.06 million. No exchange transfers, no cashing out—just straight into “stealth” mode. The purpose is unclear.

Even more intriguing: that same week, the attacker behind the Ledger hack had just sent 2,990 ETH (about $7.45 million) into the very same mixer, according to Specter monitoring on October 9–10.

One side is clean money earned fair and square; the other is stolen loot. Yet both are taking the same stealth route—which is privacy tooling really for? The comments are heating up.

$BTC $ETH #TornadoCash

October 10: The Triple-A attacker has transferred 4,970 ETH (approximately $12.4 million) into Tornado Cash.

The attacker stole about $11.8 million from the Triple-A treasury in July, bridged it to Ethereum for exchange; on September 6, it was split into two addresses, and on October 9, merged into the same wallet, then deposited into Tornado Cash in 49 transactions of 100 ETH and 7 transactions of 10 ETH, with one transaction containing assets previously withdrawn from the mixer.

#加密货币 #TornadoCash

⚠️ On-chain security alert: The Triple-A attacker has transferred 4,970 ETH (approximately $12.4 million) to Tornado Cash, presumably to mix the funds.

#加密货币 #ETH #TornadoCash #On-chainSecurity

Washington dropped a mixer rule this week, but the Tornado Cash case is not going away.

Per Cointelegraph, the DOJ cited a September 25 appeals ruling that upheld the Bitcoin Fog conviction to argue that Roman Storm's case belongs in New York. Storm was convicted in August 2025 on one count, the jury deadlocked on others, his acquittal motion is still pending, and a retrial is set for April 26, 2027.

In my view, the split is striking: Treasury is stepping back from new mixer reporting while prosecutors keep pressing a case over code built for $ETH users. That tension will shape how privacy tools get built in the US.

💬 Should writing privacy software ever be treated as running a money business?

#TornadoCash #Privacy

The DOJ is using a Bitcoin Fog ruling to argue that Roman Storm's alleged Tornado Cash activities establish jurisdiction in New York, which could significantly complicate his legal defense.

#TornadoCash #RegulatoryRisk ‎

⚖️ DOJ Pushes Ahead With Tornado Cash Case Despite Treasury Policy Retreat

The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing its criminal prosecution of Tornado Cash even as the Treasury Department has dropped its proposed mixer reporting requirements.

A venue filing dated October 5 cited the Bitcoin Fog appeal as legal precedent, signalling that the DOJ views the narrowing of Treasury's privacy policies as irrelevant to its own case. The move confirms that federal prosecutors are pursuing the Tornado Cash matter independently of the regulatory rollback at Treasury.#USDepartment #TornadoCash #crypto_moj $NVDAB $ETH

Roman Storm wants to walk free? It’s looking doubtful. The DOJ just brought out the Bitcoin Fog precedent, and is holding firm on keeping the case in New York.

The pressure from the Rule 29 motion is mounting, and the “writing code = aiding money laundering” argument now has another precedent backing it up. This is genuinely bad news for Tornado Cash and the entire privacy developer community. Don’t rush to catch a falling knife before the regulatory hammer drops—the privacy narrative is still taking a beating.

$TORN $ETH #TornadoCash #RomanStorm

The U.S. Department of Justice cited a recent appellate ruling in the Bitcoin Fog case as supplemental authority in its opposition to Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s motion for acquittal. On September 25, the appeals court upheld the conviction and sentence of Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov. Prosecutors said the ruling “directly supports” their position: witness Shakeeb Ahmed testified that he had used Tornado Cash at a Manhattan apartment, which is sufficient to establish the Southern District of New York’s jurisdiction over the charges. Storm was convicted in August 2025 of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. The jury deadlocked on two other charges, and a retrial is tentatively scheduled for April 26, 2027. #TornadoCash #CryptoRegulation (Source: X)

FinCEN just withdrew its proposal to regulate mixers, but an SDNY filing shows the DOJ is still doggedly pursuing its case against Roman Storm over Tornado Cash.

Regulators may be backing off, but the criminal prosecution continues. The U.S. hasn’t changed its stance on privacy coins at all—the rules can be withdrawn, but the cases have to be pursued to the bitter end. If Storm is convicted, every developer who writes privacy protocols will have to wonder whether they could be next.

Don’t get your hopes up for privacy in the short term.

$TORN #TornadoCash

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📊 Sanctioned so hard they can’t even renew a domain, Tornado Cash users were phished for $2.3 million

Tornado Cash, that mixer sanctioned by OFAC. After the sanctions, the official domain expired, the team couldn’t renew it, and it was immediately hijacked by someone else.

On August 20, a user clicked an old browser bookmark saved for years and landed on a fake tornado.cash. The page looked identical; the user continued depositing, while the attacker secretly captured the private note needed to withdraw.

1,010 ETH were gone—about $2.3 million at current prices. One user. One click.

This isn’t an isolated case. Over the past 12 months, phishing scams using similar expired domains have collectively siphoned off nearly 4,000 ETH.

Following the money on-chain, it was first converted to BTC, sent through Whirlpool for a round of mixing, and then returned to Ethereum and Tornado Cash. The mixer’s users were laundered through the mixer.

Sanctions were meant to choke off the protocol. The protocol didn’t die—ordinary people who used it paid the price first. The team couldn’t even keep the ability to maintain its own website, and the blame was dumped entirely on retail users.

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#中本聪国际社区Baoluo币商资本 #Bitcoin #TornadoCash

$ETH JUST SAW A $10.5M BUY AT 1,757 – BUT THE SELLER USED TORNADO CASH 🧐

Someone moved $10.54M to buy 6,001 ETH at exactly $1,757 per coin, then mixed it through Tornado Cash. That’s a massive bid at a level that’s been a key zone on the monthly.

Whales don’t dump into privacy mixers unless they plan to exit quietly. The question is whether this was accumulation or a liquidation cover before a bigger move.

Does a coordinated buy at this level make you want to take a position, or does the mixer use scare you off?

Not financial advice. Always manage your risk.

#ETH #WhaleAlert #TornadoCash #CryptoMarket

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The UXLINK attacker is going on a mad money-laundering spree, buying $6.5 million worth of ETH in 30 minutes and 'disappearing' through Tornado Cash.

On-chain monitoring shows that the UXLINK attacker is ramping up their laundering activities.

Latest move: In the past 30 minutes, this attacker spent 6.5 million DAI, averaging $1,764 to scoop up 3,686 ETH, then washed the funds through Tornado Cash.

This isn't their first rodeo. Previously, the attacker swapped 92 WBTC for about 3,248 ETH and deposited 1,500 ETH into Tornado Cash. On September 22, the UXLINK multi-signature wallet suffered a loss exceeding $44 million due to a security breach.

What does this mean?

Buying $6.5 million in ETH and funneling it into a mixer is a textbook on-chain money laundering procedure. This level of capital means that the ETH market will face ongoing sell pressure in the short term—not from regular traders, but from the cash-out demands of hackers.

Tornado Cash is a privacy mixer, and once the funds go in, they are practically untraceable. The hacker's choice of this method indicates they don’t plan to leave any traces of this money on-chain.

Market impact: The UXLINK attacker is still active, and more ETH could be dumped in the future. Day traders should be wary of the potential sell pressure on ETH. On-chain tracking shows that this attacker still holds a significant amount of DAI and ETH.

#UXLINK #hacker #moneylaundering #ETH #TornadoCash #链上追踪

🌀 Roman Storm’s Tornado Cash retrial has been pushed to April 2027.

A U.S. federal judge has scheduled the retrial of Roman Storm, co-founder and developer of Tornado Cash, for April 26, 2027, with the final pretrial conference set for April 20.

Storm was convicted in August 2025 on one count related to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, while the jury could not reach a verdict on the more serious money-laundering and sanctions-evasion charges.

Those unresolved charges are now heading toward another trial.

Storm is also seeking immunity, arguing that the case raises broader questions about whether developers should be held criminally responsible for software they helped create.

And that’s what makes this case much bigger than Tornado Cash.

If writing open-source financial software can potentially create criminal liability years later, where exactly does the line between developer and operator get drawn?

The retrial is now almost a year away.

Crypto court drama really said:

“See you in 2027.” ⚖️💀

Theo bạn, nếu một developer chỉ viết phần mềm nhưng không trực tiếp kiểm soát người dùng hay giao dịch, họ có nên chịu trách nhiệm hình sự cho cách phần mềm đó được sử dụng không?

#TornadoCash #RomanStorm #defi #Privacy #BitcoinFaces$6.4BOptionsExpiry

After the Step Finance hacker went quiet for 5 months, they suddenly acted—fully liquidating all 261,900 SOL they held, cashing out about $21.4 million.

On-chain sleuth Lookonchain traced that the funds were then bridged to Ethereum, converted into 12,128 ETH, and then dumped all at once into Tornado Cash to launder the proceeds.

A few details are worth paying attention to:
1) They chose to sell off SOL while it was relatively high, suggesting the timing was not amateurish;
2) The route—swapping from Solana to ETH and then going through a mixer—follows the standard playbook of seasoned hackers;
3) The longer the inactivity period, the more decisive the move once it happens—addresses like this will very likely carry out a second wave and third wave of liquidation later on.

For ordinary holders, there are two things to watch in the short term: first, the SOL spot market now has an additional sell-pressure source at the scale of several tens of millions of dollars; second, the ETH side is now burdened with a batch of mixer-originated funds that need to be absorbed. Money entering a mixer usually doesn’t immediately return to a CEX, but for exchange compliance teams, deposit screening in the coming weeks will likely be tighter.

Clearing the hacker’s balance doesn’t mean the story ends—it just marks the point where the funds start moving into a much harder-to-trace phase.

#StepFinance #Hack #TornadoCash
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Tornado Cash founder: The U.S. Department of Justice has enforcement logic flaws, and the blame points directly at Google and OpenAI

Recently, Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm publicly accused the U.S. Department of Justice of having logical flaws in its case, and said that under the same prosecution standards, Google and OpenAI should also be held responsible for their products being misused by North Korean IT workers.

Storm cited a recent investigation on social media platform X, stating that North Korean IT workers continue to use ChatGPT for writing and coding, and also use Google Gemini to forge and tamper with images.

According to data from the U.S. Treasury Department, in 2024, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program spending was about $800 million, and most of this funding came from wage income earned by North Korean IT workers.

If the DOJ’s logic in the Tornado Cash case—holding developers accountable for illicit use—is applied, then these two tech giants, Google and OpenAI, should also be responsible for the illegal activities of North Korean IT workers, because they provide services and profit from subscriptions.

In August 2025, Storm was convicted for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed remittance business. The ruling also set a legal precedent that software developers may be held liable for code that is used for illegal purposes.

In Storm’s view, writing code is essentially a technical creation activity and is not inherently unlawful. He also stressed that the law should hold the criminals responsible, not the tool makers, because writing code itself does not constitute a crime.

Storm concluded with a sarcastic remark: if the DOJ can keep its enforcement logic consistent, it should subpoena every employee at Google and OpenAI, examine whether they knew their tools were being used by North Korean IT workers, and sue them under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

What do you think? Do you believe Storm’s accusations against Google and OpenAI hold up? Should software developers also be held accountable for users’ wrongdoing? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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According to on-chain investigator Specter, addresses belonging to attackers linked to the CryptoBilis Ledger hardware wallet incident deposited 2,990.3 ETH (approximately $7.45 million) into Tornado Cash between October 9 and 10.

The attackers had previously withdrawn the funds to 14 addresses and used NEAR Intents to bridge them cross-chain to ZEC for privacy. Some withdrawals were traced because deposit addresses or associated gas wallets had been reused. The attackers are still moving funds. Ledger says it is investigating and has reminded users to pay attention to device security.

#Ledger #TornadoCash #CryptoSecurity

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🚨 A hacker linked to the Ledger theft has transferred approximately $1.07 million in ETH to Tornado Cash. Some of the funds later flowed into Binance’s hot wallet.

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Jaredfromsubway's attacker funneled 2000 ETH via Tornado Cash and has already shorted 1422 ETH. #ETH #TornadoCash #Jaredfromsubway