Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub as industry reacts to sanctions
2022.08.09 17:37
Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub as industry reacts to sanctions
Roman Semenov, one of the co-founders of Tornado Cash, has reported his account was suspended at the developer platform, GitHub, following the United States Treasury Department’s sanctioning of the privacy protocol.
In a Monday tweet, Semenov said that despite not being individually named as a Specially Designated National, or SDN, of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, he seemed to be facing repercussions from the Treasury alleging Tornado Cash had laundered more than $7 billion worth of cryptocurrency. As SDNs, identified firms and individuals have their assets blocked and “U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them.”
