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![davecraige Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::17786914.png) Dave Craige 🇺🇸 [@davecraige](/creator/twitter/davecraige) on x 17.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 16:57:44 UTC

I think the Tornado Cash story is a story of arrogance and hubris: 

- There were SIX other illegal crypto mixers but they built it anyway. 

- Roman literally wore shirts with a washing machine and the words Tornado Cash to conferences. 

- @dragonfly_xyz should have clearly known this was illegal. But the legal team there signed off and funded this for $900k. 

- They started getting criminal, dark money deposited to the site/protocol pretty much right away but they continued. 

- Roman paid himself $39M in $TORN tokens. 

- They talked openly in chats about the crime happening on their site. 

- They absolutely could have taken the site offline, but they never did. 

- Roman secretly sold $12M in $TORN tokens and moved the money to his private account. 

- Then they played the victim when they were caught.


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