Clearly someone is sending Ethereum from ``Tornado Cash'' to a celebrity's virtual currency wallet

Anonymous cryptocurrency users have been found sending small amounts of Ethereum (ETH) to celebrity cryptocurrency wallets.

Someone Is Trolling Ethereum Celebs by Sending ETH From Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/09/someone-is-trolling-celebs-by-sending-eth-from-tornado-cash/

According to a survey by Etherscan , an Ethereum analysis platform, an anonymous person used Tornado Cash to attack cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong , famous TV host Jimmy Fallon , comedian Dave Chappelle , It has been revealed that a small amount of Ethereum is being sent to NFT artist Beeple , clothing brand Puma, and an Ethereum address created for donations to Ukraine.

0.1 ETH (about 23,000 yen) is sent to each Ethereum address

Someone is out dusting a bunch of wallets from Tornado with 0.1 ETH lmaaaaooooo https://t.co/3NfLuz9qYF pic.twitter.com/xsmiyM8sxq

—joseph.eth (@josephdelong) August 9, 2022

Tornado Cash used for this mysterious remittance is known as one of the virtual currency mixing services that improves the anonymity of virtual currency transactions by mixing multiple transaction data. Virtual currency mixing services are used for money laundering by criminal organizations due to their nature. Therefore, on August 8, 2022, the US Treasury Department announced that it had sanctioned Tornado Cash for its involvement in money laundering of a North Korean cybercrime group. This sanction prohibits individuals and entities from trading with Tornado Cash in the United States. In addition, the use of Tornado Cash was prohibited for ``all people living in the mainland of the United States and those with American nationality living abroad''.

US Treasury Department sanctions virtual currency mixing service 'Tornado Cash', involved in money laundering in North Korea - GIGAZINE

It is hypothesized that the mysterious situation of ``using Tornado Cash to send 0.1 ETH to a celebrity's Ethereum address'' follows the tweet below posted by a Twitter account @depression2019 on August 9. Currency-related media CoinDesk reports.

Been accumulating a pretty big list of major CT users ETH addresses and their .ens official addresses

Withdrawing .1 ETH to all of them from tornado throughout the rest of the day

— depression BTC (@depression2019) August 8, 2022

In the first place, Tornado Cash cannot refuse remittances from users. Even if there is a remittance from a problematic address that is registered on the blacklist, it is not even possible to 'choose whether to receive the remittance'. Using the properties of Tornado Cash to point out the contradiction of sanctions by the US Treasury Department is the purpose of ``sending 0.1 ETH to a celebrity's Ethereum address using Tornado Cash'' this time. CoinDesk points out.