An ex-developer of Tornado Cash, the sanctioned crypto mixer that makes crypto assets harder to track, is working on a new platform that hopes to solve the service’s ties to illicit activity .
Ameen Soleimani believes that Privacy Pools, the working name for his new Ethereum mixer launched on GitHub, will nudge US regulators to reconsider their stance on privacy mixers.
In a lengthy Twitter thread, Soleimani discussed what he says as the “critical flaw” with Tornado Cash: that regular, law-abiding users have no way of distancing themselves from criminal enterprises.
1/ We fixed @tornadocash
Ameen Soleimani believes that Privacy Pools, the working name for his new Ethereum mixer launched on GitHub, will nudge US regulators to reconsider their stance on privacy mixers.
In a lengthy Twitter thread, Soleimani discussed what he says as the “critical flaw” with Tornado Cash: that regular, law-abiding users have no way of distancing themselves from criminal enterprises.
1/ We fixed @tornadocash