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Tornado Cash & the Developer Cases
The legal fight over privacy code: Roman Storm’s case and retrial, Alexey Pertsev’s appeal, Roman Semenov, the Samourai Wallet developers, sanctions on Tornado Cash, the Justice Department’s line on developers, and the bills and amicus briefs that would protect them.
The legal fight over privacy code: Roman Storm’s case and retrial, Alexey Pertsev’s appeal, Roman Semenov, the Samourai Wallet developers, sanctions on Tornado Cash, the Justice Department’s line on developers, and the bills and amicus briefs that would protect them.
- One batch a day at 09:00 (UTC) with that day’s new finds.
- Each with a short summary and why it matched.
- In your feed, by email, and as a push notice if you turn it on.
- ✕ TORN token price and trading
- ✕ Hacks laundered through Tornado Cash with no legal follow-up
- ✕ Opinion pieces without a new development
- ✕ Explainers that only retell the case
- ✕ How to use a mixer, or links to the Tornado Cash app or contracts
- ✕ Old events retold as new: the 2025 verdict, past sanctions rulings
- ⚑ Personal blogs, newsletters and social posts — kept, but marked
Exact rules
Once a day at 09:00, send me new finds with Legal or policy news on Tornado Cash or crypto privacy developers, plus at least one of Roman Storm: motions, rulings, retrial, sentencing, appeal, Alexey Pertsev appeal, Roman Semenov, Samourai Wallet developers, OFAC sanctions and court rulings on Tornado Cash, Justice Department policy on developers, Developer protection bills, Amicus briefs and advocacy: Coin Center, DeFi Education Fund, EFF or Pardon or clemency. Skip torn token price and trading, hacks laundered through tornado cash with no legal follow-up, opinion pieces without a new development, explainers that only retell the case, how to use a mixer, or links to the tornado cash app or contracts or old events retold as new: the 2025 verdict, past sanctions rulings. Keep but flag personal blogs, newsletters and social posts. Search the open web, starting with https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=%22Roman+Storm%22&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en, https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=%22Tornado+Cash%22+(court+OR+trial+OR+retrial+OR+sentencing+OR+appeal+OR+sanctions+OR+DOJ+OR+OFAC)&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en, https://decrypt.co/feed and https://www.coincenter.org/feed/, and also https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=%22Alexey+Pertsev%22+OR+%22Roman+Semenov%22&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en, https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=%22Samourai+Wallet%22+(sentencing+OR+appeal+OR+pardon+OR+developers)&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en, https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=(crypto+OR+blockchain)+developers+(prosecution+OR+%22money+transmitting%22+OR+%22Blockchain+Regulatory+Certainty+Act%22)&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en, https://www.theblock.co/rss.xml, https://www.coindesk.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/, https://www.dlnews.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/, https://www.defieducationfund.org/feed and https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml, but never cryptopanic.com, mytokencap.com, coinness.com, binance.com, pulseofnations.lol, loveisbitcoin.com, njump.me, transfers.us.com, blog.web3wagmi.com, web3paper.net, energyedtop.com, pwcio.com, adbytes.media, news.terminaltribune.info, todayonchain.com, thebitgazette.com, purelcrypto.com, cryptomediaclub.com or blockin.media. Matching is strict. Anyone can find and subscribe to it in Discover.
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