Thomas Daniels
Pamlandu womwe ukupitilira wa Tornado Cash woyambitsa mnzake waku Roman Storm, gulu lake lazamalamulo lidayitana wopanga mapulogalamu wamkulu wa Ethereum Preston Van Loon kuti akhale mboni yoyamba ya chitetezo, pambuyo pomaliza mlandu wa boma la US.
Pambuyo pa pafupifupi milungu iwiri ya umboni kuchokera kwa mboni za boma, wozenga milandu adapumula Lachinayi, ndikutsegulira njira kwa maloya a Storm kuti adziwonetsere okha chitetezo. Malinga ndi malipoti a Inner City Press ku US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Van Loon anafotokoza Tornado Cash ngati "chida chachinsinsi cha Ethereum," kufotokoza momwe iye mwini anagwiritsira ntchito ntchitoyi maulendo anayi kuti atumize okwana 43 Ether (ETH), yamtengo wapatali $3,742 mu 2019 kapena 2020, kutchula zachinsinsi.
Van Loon anafotokoza kuti kugwiritsa ntchito Tornado Cash kunalimbikitsidwa ndi kufunikira koteteza katundu wake kwa omwe angakhale owononga. "Ngati [abera] adziwa kuchuluka kwa zinthu zanga, nditha kukhala chandamale," adatero. Kufufuza kwa wotsutsa kunayang'ana pa ubale wa Van Loon ndi Storm ndi kugwiritsa ntchito kwake nsanja zambiri monga Coinbase.
Chitetezo chasonyeza kuti mlandu wawo, womwe ukhoza kutha kwa sabata, udzaphatikizanso umboni wochokera kwa akatswiri angapo, kuphatikizapo "madokotala awiri kapena atatu" ndipo mwinamwake woimira kuchokera ku blockchain analytics olimba Chainalysis. Umboni wa Van Loon ndi tsiku lachisanu ndi chinayi la mlanduwo, pomwe Mkuntho akukumana ndi milandu ingapo, kuphatikiza kuwononga ndalama, kugwiritsa ntchito makina otumizira ndalama opanda chilolezo, komanso kuchita chiwembu chophwanya zilango za US chifukwa chokhudzidwa ndi Tornado Cash.
Zachidziwikire, Van Loon adakhalanso nawo pamilandu yotsutsana ndi Treasury yaku US, kutsutsa zilango zomwe zidaperekedwa pama adilesi anzeru a Tornado Cash.
Pamene chitetezo chikukonzekera kumaliza mlandu wawo mkati mwa milungu iwiri ikubwerayi, gulu lazamalamulo la Storm lidapereka pempho lopempha kuti woweruzayo afotokozere za Tornado Cash ndi Gulu la Lazarus, bungwe la North Korea. Akapezeka kuti ndi wolakwa, Storm akhoza kukakhala m’ndende zaka zingapo.
Woweruza Katherine Failla wasonyeza kuzindikira kuopsa kwa milandu pa milandu ina yapamwamba ya crypto, kuphatikizapo ya mkulu wakale wa FTX Sam Bankman-Fried, yemwe adaweruzidwa zaka 25 chifukwa cha milandu isanu ndi iwiri. Momwemonso, Alexey Pertsev, woyambitsa mnzake wa Tornado Cash, adaweruzidwa kuti akhale m'ndende zaka zoposa zisanu chifukwa chobera ndalama ku Netherlands mu 2024.
