20 days ago, Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has been found guilty of laundering $1.2 billion. It's a bit crazy to punish a developer for developing the code.

Now Vitalik Buterin got involved with a donation (I guess he won't be accused either). I wonder if, by including more influential names, the pressure on all actors participating in the development of anonymization can be alleviated a little.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 30 ETH, valued at around $113,000, to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm through the decentralized fundraising platform Juicebox.

https://cryptopotato.com/ethereums-vitalik-buterin-donates-30-eth-to-support-tornado-cash-devs-legal-defense/

I got this on Telegram, it seems real. Although it is a scam, I had a lot of fun reading this conversation.
By sharing this, I hope that maybe someone will better understand how the scam works, it seems to me a pretty good example.

CoinGecko made a study of the fastest blockchains, it is about daily average transactions per second (TPS)
Solana reached a record high of 1,504 on 6th April.

Interestingly, Bitcoin is only on the 20th place



Source: https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/fastest-blockchains?utm_campaign=Data%2BVisualization&utm_medium=social

What do you think, how important is speed and what does it mean for the future of each blockchain?

Here is another service that thought that the right way to gain trust is by leaving fake feedback and discussions
Quite obviously, all registered in a very short period.


Topic: [ANN] SwapGate | Efficient Cryptocurrency Exchange
Started by Cazkys
UID: 201

#1
User Ridenleigh
UID: 98703

Excellent exchanger, especially convenient that support many different payment systems.

#2
User SCOTEAS
UID: 98704

Dear, who had problems with verification?Share how quickly it was solved? Or is there no verification at all?

#3
User Leoderic
UID: 98706

I prefer to use other services, but this one seemed very promising, maybe I should pay attention to it or wait.

#4
User Hamimat
UID: 98711

Yeah well, the swap already looks good, but of course I think it will be better in the future.

I have already exposed a similar case, now I am not sure if these accounts are sanctioned, but as far as I can see, the posts are not deleted.

Also, if this is not a proper subboard, I ask the admin to move it and possibly inform me where is a suitable place for such things so that I know for the future.

For those who haven't seen it
The FEDs are again in action against services that provide privacy, of course, all under the auspices of the fight against money laundering.


https://samouraiwallet.com/

Federal prosecutors charged Samourai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/04/24/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering

I want to spread the word about the Zenland escrow platform. I was recently accepted by them as an authorized escrow agent, as I announced earlier in the thread:

🔥[ANN]ZenLand - Web3 Escrow & Marketplace 🔥🔥🔥 Arbitrage 🔥

So, what is this?
I need three users who will test the platform together with me, as a trade simulation where the Zenland platform is used as an escrow service and I as an agent.

in short:
> Connect Metamask to the Zenland app (using the BSC network)
> Create a new contract and Invite @examplens as an arbitrage agent   
> Ask @examplens if you do not understand something 
> Write feedback on this forum (ANN), and on @examplens agent page
> Confirm when you finished and take your money 

What is this task?
Accepted testers need to summarize their feedback in the form of a public report in my ANN. I don't have many requirements, but I would like it to be:

- constructive feedback (in my ANN and also on my agent page on Zenland platform)
- have at least 200 words (screenshots are optional)
- express an original opinion (not based on other reports)

- It is necessary to do the task 24 hours after creating the contract
- Metamask & BSC address required
- Payment will be made through Zenland, after the published feedback

I know it's not a significant reward, but it doesn't require much work. It is more like an opportunity to learn something new.

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Those interested can apply in this thread, an authentication post with a username is enough.
All active accounts older than two months are acceptable, except for those with a red dot badge.

User Doovla desperately wants to join the signature campaign. I know that he received criticism earlier because his posts are exclusively an application for participation in the campaign, which is one of the reasons why the managers ignored his application.

Obviously, he decided to change this but in a rather wrong way. Yesterday (8 April) he wrote a total of 68 posts, with short breaks, usually one post every 2-5 minutes. (Post history https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?action=profile;u=36763;area=showposts;start=0 )

I won't say that everything he wrote is ordinary spam, but he bumped many threads, regardless of whether further discussion is unnecessary. A bit tiring when it comes from one user.

At some point, I invited him on the chatbox to take a break, but he probably didn't see this message.
I'm not in favour of rigorous punishment, because I believe that he still doesn't fully understand some of the basics of behaviour on the forum, but he should be warned.

Sorry Doovla, you will definitely read this once, but you should know when you are exaggerating. Things don't work out like that. I'm fine if this is just part of your learning process.