Following the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ban on Tornado Cash and many ethereum-based addresses associated with it, anonymous Tornado Cash users have been using ENS dusted off a cluster of well-known wallets tied to the domain name, with many celebrities and organizations receiving 0.1 ether from the platform, according to Onchain’s data. Blockchain explorers indicate that Linkin Park’s Steve Aoki, Youtuber Logan Paul, Ukrainian crypto donation address, comedian Jimmy Fallon, sneaker company Puma, and rap star Snoop Dogg are among the recipients.
Celebrities and well-known organizations receive 0.1 Ether from the Tornado Cash platform
Things got interesting after many well-known organizations and celebrities received funds from the sanctioned platform following the recent U.S. government ban on Ethereum (ETH) mixer Tornado Cash. The addresses of organizations and celebrities have become public knowledge as many of them purchased Ethereum Name Service domains and others shared their public addresses by flaunting their valuable non-fossil tokens (NFTs).
For example, “” is public knowledge; Shady_Holdings” is an Opensea account. ” is an Opensea account whose associatedethereum addressis publicly known to be connected to Marshall Mathers, better known as rap star Eminem. However, Mathers was lucky and did not get dusted off like other well-known NFT collectors who received OFAC-banned Ethereum.
Someone is dusting off a bunch of wallets from Tornado at 0.1 ETH lmaaaaaooo https://t.co/3NfLuz9qYF pic.
Anyone can register an ENS name that has not yet been taken, so it is not guaranteed that the ENS domain name that was dusted off is directly connected to the registered name. It is not guaranteed. However, there are many individuals and companies that have revealed their purchases of ENS domains to the public, such as American brewer Budweiser’s purchase of the beer.eth ENS name for $96K on August 11, 2021. expensive, such as Bored Apes and Cryptopunks. A few celebrities who have purchased blue chip NFTs have registered ENS domains using their actual names and have purchased these NFTs.
On August 9, 2022, the report detailed that an anonymous Tornado Cache user had either dusted off or sent a small fractionof ETHto numerous ENS names ostensibly tied to celebrities and well-known organizations. The sender sent 0.1 of ETHworth $168 to a very large number of addresses, some of which allegedly belonged tosneaker giant Pumaand Ukraine Crypto Donations’ Ether address. In addition, ENS names allegedly tied to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz were sent just a few of the so-called “tainted Ethers.”
Onchain datashows that Snoop Dogg’s alias ENS name “Cozomo de’ Medici” was dusted off; Youtuber Logan Paul, Linkin Park’s Steve Aoki, popular NFT artist Beeple, and American TV host and comedian Jimmy Fallon have all suffered from this window dressing. Randi Zuckerberg, Shaquille O’Neal, and Dave Chappelle were also crushed by OFAC’s ban on ether.
Most of the ENS names are confirmed to be associated with real people, as they showed off their beloved NFTs at one time or another. Because it is illegal for Americans to interact with Tornado Cash in any form, anyone who interacts with this platform will be investigated and some may be prosecuted for failure to comply with sanctions laws.
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is now OFAC’d pic.twitter.com/utIY2c3YYt.
– db (@tier10k) . 8/9/2022
However, because the mass dusting attracted the attention of the media and crypto users on social media, it is It is fairly obvious that there was no intent to receive them. Keep in mind that U.S. law allows U.S. citizens or U.S.-based organizations that intentionally interact with either Tornado Cash or sanctioned crypto addresses to face penaltiesincluding jail time and fines between $90,000 and $308,000 per violation.
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