Bitcoin Lightning node and FinCen: ‘It’s just silly. Honestly, people, stop with this stuff,’ says Legal Officer

2019-5-10 17:00

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network [FinCen] issued its guidance on the ‘Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Certain Business Models Involving Convertible Virtual Currencies’ on May 9, 2019. The guidance elucidates how money transmission regulations apply to a business involved in providing convertible virtual currency services. This includes P2P exchanges, wallets, hosted and un-hosted wallets providers, multi-sig wallet providers, kiosks, providers of anonymity-enhanced convertible virtual currencies, and more.

This created a lot of buzz in the crypto-verse, with several influencers speaking about the impact this would have. Emin Gun Sirer was one of them and stated that this was “mostly bad news”. Others included the Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, Marco Santori, who went on to explain that this would have “major implications for wallets, exchanges, ICO issuers, dApps, DEXs”.

Marco Santori tweeted,

4/ FinCEN is a big data agency. They scoop as much transaction data, identifying information, suspicious activity reporting as possible, and use it to stop the bad guys. They’ve been doing it for crypto, too – since at least 2013!

— Marco Santori (@msantoriESQ) May 9, 2019

This was followed by Satori explaining its impact on ICOs and developer applications, stating that according to FinCen, ICO sellers could fall under money transmitter regulations in a few situations. Importantly “only if they actually transmit money”. He said,

“FinCEN mostly speaks in jargon here so I’ll boil it down: software development? not regulated. *deploying* software? still not regulated deploying software that transmits money? Very much regulated Not super helpful but as good as their guidance gets.”

To this, Riccardo Spagni, the lead developer of Monero [XMR], said,

“FinCEN comes out swinging, and confirms that Bitcoin, Monero, and others are safe in developing and deploying cryptocurrency software.”

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FinCEN back on the bitcoin beat with civil penalty for peer-to-peer trader

After first issuing cryptocurrency guidance back in 2013, enforcement by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been out of the headlines in recent years. Now the bureau of the US Department of the Treasury is back on the bitcoin beat and taking action — dishing out a hefty fine to a prolific bitcoin trader accused of wilfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to register as an exchange.

2019-4-25 16:00


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Op Ed: From Gray To Black and White: Traditional Regulations Come to Crypto

For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.

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