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Following Tornado Cash sanctions, censorship has become a hot button topic of late. But Bitcoin SV launches a new tool enabling miners to freeze tokens.
Samuel Wan 2 min read 
The backlisted bitcoin addresses were linked to Nikaeen Ravari and Khatibi Aghada, who worked with the IRGC to develop and deploy ransomware that threatened the national security of the US.
US citizens who had sent cryptocurrency to Tornado Cash but did not complete the mixing transaction before the sanctions can apply for a withdrawal license from the OFAC.
DASH, DCR, FIRO, XMR, XVG, ZEC, and ZEN will cease to exist on the Huobi platform effective Sept. 19.
The plaintiffs argued that the authorities overstepped their authority and also violated their rights.
A smart contract written by Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis has revealed evidence of miner censorship on the Ethereum blockchain.
Global payment messaging service SWIFT claims to be "neutral" regarding sanctions. Can Ethereum make the same claim?
Ethermine is no longer processing blocks that include Tornado Cash transactions creating censorship at a protocol level
Also documented by Wu Blockchain, the accusations of FTX users having their accounts frozen came from a series of tweets from a handful of accounts.
