Tornado Cash repositories are going to unlock on github – Bits Media

The web service for hosting IT projects partially unlocked on its Tornado Cash platform-the code of the cryptocurrency mixer is available for reading.

Ethereum developer Preston van Lun (Preston van Loon) wrote on his Twitter, that the code is available for reading, However, this means, what GitHub has not yet restored full access to the repository. but, considers, Van Lun, This is significant progress in comparison with complete blocking:

“I still urge Github to completely cancel all actions, made in recent weeks and return their previous status to repositories ".

According to GitHub, The latest updates of the Tornado Cash repositories were made on August 22, Soon after that, As an account of the co -founder of Tornado Cash, Roman Semenov was blocked on the platform.

The statement was affected by the statement
Control over foreign assets (I DO IT), in which the regulator reported, that US residents will not violate sanctions, If you copy the mixer code or post it on the Internet. OFAC also noted, that US citizens will not be forbidden to visit the Tornado Cash website, If it becomes available on the Internet again.

Seems to be, The hype in the media and the cryptocurrency community around the case helped the Tornado Cash Destigamatization. However, so far it does not mean, that in the near future, sanctions will be lifted from the corresponding addresses of the Ethereum and the service itself.

At the end of August, a professor of computer sciences of the University of John Hopkins Matthew Green (Mathew Green) Carked re -loaded
Tornado Cash cryptocurrency service code for Github, stated, that the code cannot be included, as this will damage the scientific and technical community.