I believe we'll likely see other actions taken by US companies, such as Twitter banning the Tornado Cash account, Microsoft deleting its github repositories, the registrar of its current domain name disabling it, Discord kicking it off, and so forth. Perhaps large RPC providers refusing calls involving the sanctioned addresses, though I think that's less likely.
We will also see an escalation of fiat enabled exchanges refusing to do business with users who bring assets from Tornado Cash connected accounts, however there are other developments in the pipeline that will mitigate this, and increased aggression by proponents of financial exclusion will drive adoption as they are a real pain for legitimate actors too, and also these systems are necessary to increase transaction throughput anyway. (eg. rollup protocols on Ethereum, lightning network protocols on Bitcoin)
Perfectly happy to see all the centralized support crutches kicked out from under another poster child for fake decentralization rhetoric. Let's see how they do after they have to eat that dogfood for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not just for dessert.
What's important is to keep that potential open, of course.
Edit: Authoritative AWS nameservers have now stopped resolving tornado.cash.
It happened: https://twitter.com/0xdev0/status/1556933551073153024
why not?
Maybe locking account of user who use it will be sufficient.
That tokens from "something like" Tornado should not be handled, though, seems like it would be harder to specify.
So, it seems that it is prohibited for US persons to send tokens to these smart contracts, or to withdraw tokens from these smart contracts.
What about miners running in the United States? Are US-based miners also prohibited from producing blocks that include transactions that interact with these smart contracts?
And what about blocks that are produced by non-US miners, and which contain transactions that interact with these smart contracts? Might US-based miners be prohibited from validating and building upon such blocks?
Does US law effectively now mandate a fork of Ethereum so that US persons can safely interact with a blockchain that excludes all interactions with Tornado smart contracts? It seems like an extreme implication, but can the possibility be excluded?