[greatjack613]

Can someone Eli5 what this actually means? I mean tornado is anonymous so I can’t see the operators getting screwed.

Does it mean people like me who use it so Coinbase can’t track my wallet activity are going to have our wallets banned since we used tornado?

[pudo]

If you were to send money through tornado from now on, and this was discovered and linked to your identity, you would face a criminal liability in the US.

[jahewson]

Also civil liability, which is much easier for the government to pursue you with.

[SXX]

It means that if you're in US and publicly share your crypto address for vanity like NFT or something anyone can easily make you criminal just by sending you some "bad" coins. Good luck proving to U.S. Treasury it wasn't you.

In real world it's most likely gonna be used mostly against big transactions and to go after crypto exchanges.