Formerly Jailed Tornado Cash Developer Alex Pertsev Resumes Tweeting

“Sorry I was afk for a while, what did I miss?” he Tweeted.

Tornado Cash developer Alex Pertsev, who was arrested last summer in the Netherlands for allegedly committing "money laundering" after the U.S. government sanctioned Tornado Cash, has returned to social media.

“Sorry I was afk for a while, what did I miss?” he Tweeted.

Tornado Cash, a popular privacy mixer, got in the crosshairs of the Treasury last year after the U.S. government declared that North Korean hackers were regularly using the service to evade U.S. sanctions.

The U.S. government said the service had "repeatedly failed to impose effective controls designed to stop it from laundering funds for malicious cyber actors."

The move sparked a heated uproar in the crypto community, most of which believes open-source code should not be sanctioned.