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many countries, organizations and even Individuals Face International Sanctionsthe crypto industry is trying to find its place amid increasing regulation.
Digital currencies have often been referred to as a means for sanctioned parties to repurpose digital currencies. Recent Russian caseIn such cases, exchanges and other industry players need to understand their position on compliance.
Research outside of Harvard proposed by the central bank Bitcoin can be used (Bitcoin) repel sanctions.
Speaking to Cointelegraph managing editor Alex Cohen at the Israel Crypto Conference, Chainalysis sanctions head Andrew Fearman said sanctions are nuanced depending on many factors surrounding the situation.
“When you look at a country like Iran, north koreaFrom a US perspective, cryptocurrencies are indeed comprehensively licensed.
He said Russia is a bit of a “different story” because of entity-based sanctions, such as companies and individuals sanctioned by the United States. All this, along with industry-based sanctions (energy, military, etc.) create a darker nuance to the situation.
This is one of the big challenges across the industry, not just in cryptocurrencies, but in traditional finance as well.
However, Fierman said there are ways that major industry players can save the ecosystem from major headaches.
Actively sanctioning entities and actors operating in ways that damage the ecosystem is an effective way to help prevent any interaction with the ecosystem.
Fiermann went on to say that if actors are working on blockchain, there are many opportunities to stop illegal activity in the industry.
Fiermann highlighted several recent compliance enforcement cases by government agencies such as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). One of them is Centralized Exchange Kraken Hundreds of thousands fined by OFAC and Bitfinex was fined even more.
“In both cases, they really point the way for cosmic entities to take the right approach.”
According to sanctions officers, one of the big trends in the industry is IP blocking, Continuous monitoring of IP activityThis not only outlines the gist of the know your customer procedure for verifying a user’s identity, but also where users log in from to search for discrepancies.
prediction predicts Crypto-related cross-chain money laundering Reach $10 billion by 2025.
