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Tornado cash is not money laundering. It just isn't. Please stop claiming that.

If it were money laundering, you would be able to purchase a house with the money you made from drugs and then mixed through tornado. You can't. It's indistinct from having cash you made from selling drugs.

You still need to create a fake business to launder your money the old fashioned way if you want to have a legitimate origin for your money. Tornado does not launder your money. Claiming the origin of your money is tornado and nothing else is akin to claiming the origin of your money is cash you found on the street or something.

Tornado is just an anonymity tool.




> Tornado cash is not money laundering. It just isn't. Please stop claiming that.

If I deposit 200k USD into my bank account which came from Tornado.cash - They will ask for proof it came from there.

Tornado cash will confirm this with their compliance tools etc. However as to where it came from before is in practice today impossible to identify.

The bank // IRS whoever may suspect something bad, but unless they can prove it, and I pay taxes on it, then that money is considered clean.

All one would need to say is - I lost my original wallet(s) when I slowly dripped it from a few old accounts I had when I was mining back in the day into Tornado.

I'm sure there are other clever ways cretins will come up with too but thats just off the top of my head. A very effective annonomizing tool helps that.

I'm not condoning it, I just don't think you should be too naive to believe its not happening.




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