Tornado cash under new attack
Yesterday (11/07/2023), the Tornado Cash community suffered a large-scale DDoS attack. The website https://tornado.ws was inaccessible, and both https://git.tornado.ws and https://forum.tornado.ws are still not functioning properly. Ever since being sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury and Department of Justice, with its founder arrested, any interaction with Tornado Cash contracts is considered illegal. Major exchanges and RPC service providers have banned interactions with Tornado Ca...
Tornado cash under new attack
Yesterday (11/07/2023), the Tornado Cash community suffered a large-scale DDoS attack. The website https://tornado.ws was inaccessible, and both https://git.tornado.ws and https://forum.tornado.ws are still not functioning properly. Ever since being sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury and Department of Justice, with its founder arrested, any interaction with Tornado Cash contracts is considered illegal. Major exchanges and RPC service providers have banned interactions with Tornado Ca...
What is Tornado Cash?
Tornado Cash is a crypto transaction privacy program developed on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows a user to deposit several types of cryptocurrency into a shared pool, then receive a transaction key. A user can later input the key to withdraw crypto from the pool into a different crypto wallet. The purpose of Tornado Cash is to act as a privacy-enhancing intermediary in crypto transactions. Usually, crypto is exchanged directly between two parties, leaving a record linking the sender to th...
What is Tornado Cash?
Tornado Cash is a crypto transaction privacy program developed on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows a user to deposit several types of cryptocurrency into a shared pool, then receive a transaction key. A user can later input the key to withdraw crypto from the pool into a different crypto wallet. The purpose of Tornado Cash is to act as a privacy-enhancing intermediary in crypto transactions. Usually, crypto is exchanged directly between two parties, leaving a record linking the sender to th...
