Former Monero lead maintainer Riccardo Spagni—who has 117,000 followers on his @Fluffypony Twitter account—called out Blockseer’s new mining pool for “advertising that it censors transactions as a key selling point.”
Aside from seizing or freezing “all property and interests in property” from sanctioned persons, under the law “U.S. persons generally are prohibited from dealing with them,” according to the OFAC website. The Secret Service also seized millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies and cash allegedly stolen in the sophisticated phishing and spoofing attacks by Russian national Danil Potekhin in 2017 and 2018, which was subsequently laundered by Dmitrii Karasavidi.
Joselit Ramirez Camacho, is “accused of having deep political, social and economic ties to multiple alleged narcotics kingpins, including the country’s former vice president, Tareck El Aissami,” according to a statement released on June 1 by the ICE Homeland Security Investigations division.
