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Surprised it took them this long. Tornado is straight up money laundering with the guise of "privacy" and crypto.

Except it’s not and you’re 100% wrong.

Tornado cash is used by people who buy crypto on centralized exchanges, want to take private self custody of their crypto without the CEX or other entity spying on them.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

You could use this same argument against E2E encryption.

And most of the North Korean crypto funds have gone through there..

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/04/15/sanctioned-crypto-w...

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