Goodbye Fungibility: OFAC's Bitcoin Blacklist Could Remake Crypto || Bitcoin 🌎

in crypto •  7 years ago 

With only one paragraph, a bureau of the U.S. government could have simply radically altered the dynamics of the cryptocurrency system.

The workplace of Foreign plus management (OFAC) Declared on Christian holy day that it had been considering together with digital currency, addresses related to its list of persons and entities with whom U.S. persons and businesses square measure out to interact business.

In a new section of its web site, labelled "Questions concerning Virtual Currency," OFAC noted that it "may add digital currency, addresses to the SDN List to alert the general public of specific digital currency identifiers related to a blocked person."

The list of Specially selected Nationals (SDNs) Includes people and entities related to sanctioned governments, terrorism, trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, and dirty drug traffic. This list includes variable forms of records, together with in some cases solely names, however, in different case names, addresses, aliases, etc.

Financial establishments would be needed to screen any virtual currency address provided for a dealing against a listing to be provided by OFAC, and to either report, deny service to, or block transactions involving any listed addresses.

The agency's list conjointly encourages reportage of addresses related to listed people, that suggests that they will supplement the SDN list on AN current basis.

This brings up in numerous queries, some of that we have a tendency to tackle below:

Who decides what addresses square measure additional to the SDN list?

OFAC is operated by the Department of Treasury, that presently maintains and updates the SDN list. It seems that the prevailing SDN list was going to be updated to incorporate addresses related to people and entities already listed by OFAC, which OFAC is encouraging others to supply extra information to associate addresses with listed people and entities.

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