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Tornado Cash delisting follows US Fifth Circuit decision limiting sanctions' reach

By Samuel Rubenfeld ( March 21, 2025, 21:16 GMT | Insight) -- The removal of Tornado Cash from the US sanctions list follows a US appellate court decision last year that had limited the reach of the measures targeting the cryptocurrency-transaction anonymizing service. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found last year that the sanctions had gone too far by including Tornado Cash’s immutable computer code, which it said is “incapable” of being owned.The removal of Tornado Cash from the US sanctions list follows a US appellate court decision last year that had limited the reach of the measures targeting the cryptocurrency-transaction anonymizing service....

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