August 24, 2022
Tether ignores Treasury’s sanction of Tornado Cash, says freezing some accounts could be ‘reckless’
Source: Fortune
Journalist: Leo Schwartz
In addition to Ethereum, some of those wallets held two different stablecoins: USDC, associated with the company Circle Internet Financial, and Tether. According to Yaya Fanusie, an adjunct senior fellow focused on blockchain technology at the Center for a New American Security, the presence of the stablecoins created a clear compliance responsibility for Tether and Circle.
“They have to take some action,” he told Fortune. “[They’re] central issuers, so [they] need to control it.”
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