Following the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banning Tornado Cash and a number of associated Ethereum-based addresses, an anonymous Tornado Cash user has dusted a swathe of well known wallets tied to ENS domain names. Onchain data shows that a number of celebrities and organizations received 0.1 ether from the platform. Blockchain explorers indicate Linkin Park’s Steve Aoki, Youtuber Logan Paul, the Ukraine Crypto Donations address, comedian Jimmy Fallon, the sneaker company Puma, and rap star Snoop Dogg are among the recipients.
Celebs and Well Known Organizations Receive 0.1 Ether From the Tornado Cash Platform
Things got interesting following the recent United States government ban against the ethereum (ETH) mixer Tornado Cash after a number of well known organizations and celebrities received funds from the sanctioned platform. The organizations and celebrity addresses are public knowledge because many of them purchased Ethereum Name Service domains and others have shared their public addresses by showing off their valuable non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
For instance, it is public knowledge that “Shady_Holdings” is an account on Opensea and its associated ethereum address is connected to Marshall Mathers, otherwise known as the rap star Eminem. Mathers, however, got lucky and did not get dusted like some of the other famous NFT collectors that did receive OFAC-banned ethereum.
Someone is out dusting a bunch of wallets from Tornado with 0.1 ETH lmaaaaooooohttps://t.co/3NfLuz9qYF pic.twitter.com/xsmiyM8sxq
— joseph.eth (@josephdelong) August 9, 2022
It’s not guaranteed that the ENS domain names that were dusted are directly connected with the names registered, as anyone can register an ENS name if it’s not yet taken. But the public is aware of many individuals and companies that have revealed purchasing ENS domains, like when the American beer manufacturer Budweiser purchased the beer.eth ENS name for $96K on August 11, 2021. A few celebrities who bought expensive blue chip NFTs like Bored Apes or Cryptopunks have purchased these NFTs with registered ENS domains using their actual name.
On August 9, 2022, reports detailed that an anonymous Tornado Cash user dusted or sent small fractions of ETH to a number of ENS names that are ostensibly tied to celebs and well known organizations. The sender sent 0.1 ETH worth $168 to a great number of addresses, some of which allegedly belong to the sneaker…
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