{"id":11858,"date":"2025-02-07T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:46:41","slug":"tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-to-be-released-from-jail-to-prepare-for-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11858","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Be Released From Jail to Prepare for Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer found guilty of money laundering in 2024, is set to be released from prison on Friday to prepare for his appeal, he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alex_pertsev\/status\/1887523522488283488\" target=\"_blank\">post on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 31-year old Russian national was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2024\/05\/14\/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-found-guilty-of-money-laundering\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to 64 months<\/a> in a Dutch prison last May after an indictment said Pertsev had &#8220;a habit of committing money laundering&#8221; and should have suspected illicit transactions on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Tornado Cash is a coin-mixing protocol that allows users to privately send tokens to another wallet. It achieves privacy by pooling funds together and shuffling them until the origin is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol is sanctioned by the U.S. government, which alleges that Tornado Cash was being used by North Korean hackers Lazarus Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer found guilty of money laundering in 2024, is set to be released from prison on Friday to prepare for his appeal, he said in a post on X. The 31-year old Russian national was sentenced to 64 months in a Dutch prison last May after an indictment said Pertsev [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}