I think an interesting question to ask now is why is only Tornado Cash affected and other privacy projects like CoinJoin, Monero, and even Zcash are still fine?
Is that just because Tornado was used the most recently or are there some other factors playing a role here? Just odd
The terminal total difficulty has been set to 58750000000000000000000.
This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine.
https://t.co/3um744WkxZ predicts the merge will happen around Sep 15, though the exact date depends on hashrate.
They arrested the developer of tornado cash. 🚨
I repeat: a man was arrested for writing code that served as a public good for people to maintain their privacy online.
They put a man in jail because bad people used his open source code.
This cannot stand in any free society.