{"id":17558,"date":"2024-10-06T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-donates-100-eth-to-support-tornado-cash-developers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T10:24:20","slug":"vitalik-buterin-donates-100-eth-to-support-tornado-cash-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-donates-100-eth-to-support-tornado-cash-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Donates 100 ETH to Support Tornado Cash Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated 100 ETH (approximately $242,000) to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I cant describe how much it means to me. Thank you for your long lasting support \u2764\ufe0f?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjqkO5u6WR\">https:\/\/t.co\/DjqkO5u6WR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roman S (@rstormsf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rstormsf\/status\/1842600977830219940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The donation was made to <a href=\"https:\/\/juicebox.money\/v2\/p\/618\">Storm&#8217;s support page<\/a>. According to the page, the total donations at the time of writing amount to 327.51 ETH (~$793,000). On <a href=\"https:\/\/juicebox.money\/v2\/p\/713\">Pertsev&#8217;s page<\/a>, an additional 56.19 ETH (~$136,000) has been raised.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>&#8220;I can&#8217;t describe how much this means to me. Thank you for your long-lasting support,&#8221; wrote Storm.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This marks Buterin&#8217;s third donation to the defense of Tornado Cash developers. In May, he <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-donates-30-eth-for-tornado-cash-developers-legal-defense\">donated 30 ETH<\/a> to the same Free Alexey &#038; Roman fund, launched in January on the decentralized platform Juicebox.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2022, the <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> sanctioned the Tornado Cash website, alleging that criminals laundered over $7 billion in cryptocurrency through it. More than $455 million of this was linked to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, Dutch authorities arrested mixer developer Alexey Pertsev.<\/p>\n<p>On May 14, 2024, he was found guilty of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-sentenced-to-64-months-for-money-laundering\">laundering $1.2 billion<\/a> through Tornado Cash and sentenced to 64 months in prison. In July, the court <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developer-denied-bail\">denied<\/a> Pertsev bail pending an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Storm and another mixer co-founder, Roman Semenov, also face charges of money laundering and sanctions violations in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Storm was released on bail, having refused to plead guilty. Semenov remains free but has <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-developers-launch-fundraising-for-legal-defense\">come under sanctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated 100 ETH (approximately $242,000) to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm. I cant describe how much it means to me. Thank you for your long lasting support \u2764\ufe0f?? https:\/\/t.co\/DjqkO5u6WR \u2014 Roman S (@rstormsf) October 5, 2024 The donation was made to Storm&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17557,"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":[1314,200],"class_list":["post-17558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-tornado-cash","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558","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=17558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}