Tornado Cash was hit by U.S. sanctions in August 2022. This spurred Lazarus Group to use another mixer, Sinbad, to obfuscate their ill-gotten gains. However, Sinbad itself was seized by U.S. authorities in November, prompting Lazarus to make the shift back to Tornado Cash, Elliptic said in its blog post. One of Tornado Cash’s founders, Roman Storm, was arrested last year and is awaiting trial on money laundering charges. Another, Roman Semenov, has been charged but has yet to be arrested.
State of Wisconsin Buys Nearly $100M Worth of BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT)
The investment board, also known as SWIB, was founded in 1951 and currently manages more than $156 billion in assets,...