Tornado Cash Is One Step Away from Full Censorship (and a Solution)

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Roman Semenov, Alexey Pertsev, and Roman Storm decided to launch a cryptocurrency mixer on Ethereum in 2019. The system achieves privacy by severing the on-chain connection between deposit and withdrawal. It enables withdrawals to different addresses from those used for deposits. Users deposit their funds, wait for a while for the mixing, and then withdraw using a new address.