South Korea moves to ban Anonymous Crypto Accounts

in ripple •  7 years ago 

News rolling in from South Korea is that the Government has been developing a system to lockout anonymous account transactions has come from financial industry sources. These follow-up measures have come after South Korea's government announced last week they were undertaking measures to limit transactions of cryptocurrencies, which include possible closures of cryptocurrency exchanges.

If we see a go ahead, only real-name bank accounts and matching accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges can be used for deposits and withdrawals, while new virtual accounts will be banned.

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With this news and the current downtrend in many of the altcoin in the marketplace, we will soon see if this has a major effect. Coins like #xrp especially are popular in South Korea in which we see, a large volume through South Korean exchanges, keep an eye on developments as those with long positions may need to keep are careful watch on developments.

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Wouldn't VPNs work to bypass this?

In the long term this is just a great news in my opinion.