{"id":12806,"date":"2024-04-22T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/crypto-game-winner-donates-prize-to-tornado-cash-developers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:39:29","slug":"crypto-game-winner-donates-prize-to-tornado-cash-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/crypto-game-winner-donates-prize-to-tornado-cash-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Game Winner Donates Prize to Tornado Cash Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

An anonymous winner of the second season of the cryptocurrency survival game “Crypto: The Game,” known as Player 733, has donated their prize of 71.8 ETH (approximately $210,000 at the time of the transaction) to Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm. This was reported by Decrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The season, titled “Anon Island,” concluded on April 17. Participants used in-game NFTs to vote for transferring the funds to the Tornado Cash legal defense fund. The transfer has already been made<\/a> to the fund’s wallet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe, the custodians of #733, acting on behalf of the 171 jurors of the game, believe that code is equivalent to speech, open source is not a crime, and privacy is a fundamental human right,\u201d the attached message states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In August 2022, OFAC<\/span> blacklisted Tornado Cash for involvement in laundering over $7 billion in illicit funds.<\/p>\n

In the same month, Alexey Pertsev was arrested. In April 2023, his pre-trial detention was changed to house arrest.<\/p>\n

Money laundering and sanctions violation charges in the US have also been brought against Tornado Cash co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov. The former was released on bail. The latter remained free but came under sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since January 2024, Storm and Pertsev have been raising $1.5 million for legal representation. For this purpose, the JusticeDAO fund<\/a> was created. The initiative has been supported by many in the crypto community.<\/p>\n

In February, the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe halted fundraising<\/a> for Tornado Cash, citing risks to its users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An anonymous winner of the second season of the cryptocurrency survival game “Crypto: The Game,” known as Player 733, has donated their prize of 71.8 ETH (approximately $210,000 at the time of the transaction) to Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm. This was reported by Decrypt. The season, titled “Anon Island,” concluded on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306,1314],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}