The U.S. Treasury Department faces a second lawsuit over its August decision to sanction Tornado Cash, a crypto-mixing service that obscures sources of coin transactions.
The lawsuit
In August, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control
The following month, Coinbase Global Inc. helped
A spokesperson for the Treasury Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
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