Tldr: Tornado Cash was sentenced today to over five years in prison
In an unprecedented court case, Alex Pertsev, a key developer of an Ethereum-based privacy tool called Tornado Cash was sentenced today to over five years in prison as a result of his work on the project. The sentence handed down was the maximum requested by the prosecutors, and marks the first conviction of a developer who built a decentralized privacy tool for cryptocurrencies.
Source: https://freedom.tech
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