“ There are legit privacy arguments in favor of mixing services.
"When privacy crosses into criminality, there is no privateness," said Ralph S.
Behr, a criminal defense lawyer with intensive experience with cash laundering cases in federal courts.
To the casual observer, the mixing service presents one very obvious
and darkly compelling allure: the flexibility to shortly and easily launder
money. Tornado’s identify brings to mind another widely-used digital privacy protocol: Tor, or The Onion Router, a service that bounces your web
searching activity around various totally different relays in order to hide your
activity from anyone that is likely to be snooping. The FBI caught
the aforementioned NFT rug-pullers, despite their use of Tornado, based
on Internet data they subpoenaed from corporations like Discord and Twitter.
The question stays: Even if law enforcement wanted to shut
down Twister, what could it do? If the area is
taken down from the web, the protocol can be accessed instantly.
Money laundering considerations led to some other similar services being shut down in the past, but Tornado continues to be going
robust - and would possibly even be "unstoppable," in line with its founders. ”