US Launches Quiet Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies

in usa •  7 years ago 


While all eyes were distracted with the Trump-demeaning headlines of the foreign sanctions bill, few spotted the hidden mandate that foreign governments monitor cryptocurrency circulations as a measure to combat "illicit finance trends" in an effort to "combat terrorism."


As Coinivore reports, the bill requires the governments to develop a “national security strategy” to combat the “financing of terrorism and related forms of illicit finance.”

Governments will be further required to monitor “data regarding trends in illicit finance, including evolving forms of value transfer such as so-called cryptocurrencies.”

According to the bill, an initial draft strategy is expected to come before Congress within the next year, and will see input from U.S. financial regulators, the Department of Homeland Security, and the State Department.The bill calls for:

“[A] discussion of and data regarding trends in illicit finance, including evolving forms of value transfer such as so-called cryptocurrencies, other methods that are computer, telecommunications, or internet-based, cybercrime, or any other threats that the Secretary may choose to identify.”

Interestingly enough, Coindesk reports, “the new bill echoes another submitted in May as part of a wider Department of Homeland Security legislative package.” That measure, as CoinDesk reported at the time, calls for research into the potential use of cryptocurrencies by terrorists. 

Like the DHS bill, the new sanctions law doesn’t constitute a shift in policy, but rather indicates that Congress is taking steps to explore the issue more closely.

Just more examples of the U.S. government trying to impose its will upon other nations and citizens who never lived there, as witnessed with the arrest of Alexander Vinnik in Greece, BTC-E’s alleged CEO according to the Department Of Justice.

Source : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-13/us-launches-quiet-crackdown-cryptocurrencies  

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thats sucks!! much more money is laundered in cash USD, gold than in Crypto markets, digital transactions are easy to track for a hacker (FBI has great hackers), not the same with cash laundering :-) thats bst and a big lie, as always Gov trying to bite people's money :/

The problem is not money laundry - its more that the central banks don't want to let ... how the Germans are saying ? ... "not letting others taking the butter from their own bread" :-)

Ja, sehr gut :-) CB are sucks, cryptos have a big battle to fight and keep the way to the bright future that all of us want. If they are doing this is because crypto are shaking their world, bankers are worried about.

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The biggest untraceable monetary float for illegal transactions has always been the US Dollar. I wonder if they have any intentions of trying to stop that from happening.

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Luckily I am not based in the U.S. - Every day another bad message...
Especially when considering that countries like Japan and Australia are going to accept BTC as official currency .

They are just mad that they aren't holding any BTC.

I don't know who got it wrong, but this excerpt with number 8 highlighted is talking about a requirement in the US, not other countries. 7, 8, 9, and 10 in that excerpt is part of SEC. 262. CONTENTS OF NATIONAL STRATEGY, which strategy is described in SEC. 261. DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL STRATEGY which talks about who has to report what to congress.

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They're cracking down, just on us, they have no real jurisdiction over other countries.

CIA loves crypto because they can launder their drug-money.