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making money laundering great again (Tornado Cash is a crypto thing built for and very popular with money launderers like North Korea and #Russia, who use it to anonymize their on chain activity. the howler monkeys on the 5th circuit declared the sanctions against it to be unconstitutional a few months ago and then the #Trump administration dropped the sanctions that prohibited people from using the service).

the TORN token, which is literally an investment in the success of a money laundering enterprise, spiked on the news.

coindesk.com/policy/2025/07/07

i feel like there must be some linguistic reason these Chinese organized crime crypto money laundering companies always use the word "guarantee" in their names.

* Elliptic report: elliptic.co/blog/xinbi-guarant
* Wired article: wired.com/story/xinbi-guarante

Also worth noting that Jacob Silverman and James Block (Dirty Bubble Media) were reporting on some of these Colorado based crypto scam companies a year and a half ago: thenation.com/article/economy/

good thing the US is gutting beneficial ownership regulations that would make it easier to understand who actually owns US trusts and corporations while simultaneously trashing both crypto enforcement at the DOJ but also more generally cyber defense

"The companies, Blocknovas LLC and Softglide LLC, were set up in the states of #NewMexico and New York using fake personas and addresses."

* Reuters: reuters.com/sustainability/boa
* Technical details from Silent Push: silentpush.com/blog/contagious