This Week on Crypto Twitter: Tornado Cash Sanctions Slammed, Vitalik Criticizes MakerDAO Proposal

August 14, 2022 John Bitcoin 0

This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt.

It should also be noted that Github—the code platform that hosted Tornado Cash’s code—also took action on Monday. Github removed Tornado’s code and suspended Tornado Cash founder Roman Semenov’s account. 

Finally, on Friday, the Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) reported arresting a “suspected” Tornado Cash developer. The news made waves on Twitter, with the crypto community and privacy advocates decrying the move as a declaration of war on coders.

Elsewhere…

Joel Miyazawa, a governance analyst at crypto intelligence firm Messari, can’t understand why the UniSwap community is so divided over a $74 million proposal to form a UniSwap Foundation separate to the exchange. 

 

The Tornado Cash sanctions resulted in USDC issuer Circle freezing all USDC in wallets on the government’s sanctions list. This prompted MakerDAO to reconsider its exposure to Circle, the centralized issuer of USDC. MakerDAO’s stablecoin DAI is currently pegged to USDC.

But Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin quickly gave his opinion on the proposal, calling it “a risky and terrible idea.”  

 Chinese blockchain journalist Colin Wu elaborated more on the story on Friday. 

Finally, The Ethereum Merge has a definite date now. 

 Well… More or less.

 

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