SlowMist: in 2023, more than $800 million was laundered through Tornado Cash
In 2023 alone, the infamous cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash laundered more than $800 million worth of cryptocurrency at current exchange rates.
SlowMist analysts spoke about the main villains of 2023. Along with the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, the Tornado Cash service made it to the top.
According to experts, over the past year the mixer laundered about 314,740 Ethereum
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. At the current rate, this number of tokens is estimated at $818.3 million. At the end of 2023, the total amount was $567.2 million.
Second place in the ranking of mixers that are popular among criminals was taken by eXch. A total of 47,235 ETH were laundered through it, which is approximately $125 million at current prices.
