We’ve recently had issues with CoinBase.com that resulted in CB account bans of anyone who sent funds to our wallet. For some reason, our USDT ERC20 address that we’ve had for years became blacklisted. A few days ago, Binance.com jumped on the ship and pretty much did the same, but at least Binance didn’t block user’s accounts but gave this warning:
At least Binance was kind enough to tell us why they’re doing it. We are being blocked because someone has withdrawn funds from TornadoCash to our addresses.
On August 8th, the popular Ethereum smart-contract mixer Tornado Cash was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for its role in laundering over $455 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korean-linked hacking organization Lazarus Group .
Well, we finally caved in and changed our address as we can’t have two major exchanges blocking us, it would be inconvenient to our users. So, you may resume sending us payments from CoinBase.com and Binance. And don’t worry, our old addresses still work, but it would be wise that everyone updated their wallets. The new addresses are already updated in our ticket responses.
That is all. Thank you!