The Romanian National Gaming Office (ONJN) on Thursday blacklisted prediction market platform Polymarket for operating without a license. ONJN classifies betting on Polymarket as counterparty bets rather than transactions. In Romania, gaming is a state monopoly and operators must apply for and obtain a license from the National Gaming Office before conducting business. ONJN President Vlad-Cristian Soare said that...
Roman Storm, the developer of the Tornado Cash Privacy Shield, asked the open-source software community if they were concerned about being retroactively sued by the Department of Justice for developing a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Storm asks DeFi developers: How can you be sure that you won't be charged by the DOJ with "MSB" (building unmanaged protocols), and then accused of building managed protocols? If SDNY can accuse developers of building unmanaged protocols... then what's safe...
Tornado Cash隐私保护协议的开发者Roman Storm询问开源软件社区,是否担心因开发去中心化金融(DeFi)平台而被美国司法部追溯起诉。 Storm询问DeFi 开发人员:你怎么能确定自己不会被司法部以“MSB”(构建非托管协议)的罪名起诉,然后又被指控应该构建托管协议呢?如果 SDNY 可以指控开发者构建非托管协议……那还有什么安全可言?
On October 2nd, according to DL News, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has filed a request with a federal judge to drop the charges since his high-profile criminal trial ended in August. Storm's plea of not guilty comes exactly eight weeks after a jury found him guilty of conspiracy to operate an unregistered money transfer business. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. But the jury was unable to reach an agreement on the most serious charges - conspiracy to launder ...
10月2日消息,据 DL News 报道,Tornado Cash 联合创始人 Roman Storm 已向联邦法官提出请求,要求撤销自他备受关注的刑事审判于 8 月结束以来的指控。Storm 的无罪请求提交恰逢陪审团认定他在共谋经营未注册的资金传输业务一案中有罪整整八周后。该罪名最高可判五年监禁。但陪审团在最严重的指控上未能达成一致——共谋洗钱和规...
Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, said in a social media post early this morning that the foundation would donate another $500,000 to the legal defense of Roman Storm, founder of Tornado Cash. "Privacy is the norm, and writing code is not a crime," Wang said.
以太坊基金会联合执行董事Hsiao-Wei Wang今日凌晨在社交媒体发文表示,该基金会将再捐赠50万美元用于Tornado Cash创始人Roman Storm的法律辩护。Wang表示,“隐私是常态,编写代码并非犯罪。”

According to Eleanor Terrett, the jury in the Roman Storm case said today that it had reached an impasse on some of the charges. Judge Failla immediately issued Allen's instructions for the jury to reconsider. If the impasse continues, the court will accept part of the verdict and the government may reopen the case on the remaining charges. The results of the jury's reconsideration are currently awaited.
据EleanorTerrett披露,Roman Storm案陪审团今日表示在部分指控上陷入僵局。法官Failla随即发出Allen指示,要求陪审团重新进行审议。若僵局持续,法院将接受部分判决,政府可能会对剩余指控重新提起诉讼。目前正等待陪审团重新审议的结果。