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Treasury places digital currency addresses on sanctions list (fcw.com)
3 points by ccnafr on Nov 29, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Really problematic for currencies that are untracable like monero... the transaction isnt stored to-from unencrypted so only you with your transaction key can show it to who you paid to reveal the proof that you made the transaction... https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/prove-paymen...

This just really messes with the concept of making peoples money less valuable than other peoples by blacklisting addresses, wont work id say for cryptoNote currencies ...

plug: checkout https://bitbank.nz for ai market forecasts


nice. until someone starts offering the 'swatting' equivalent on BTC.

for a price, they will forward BTC from sanctioned address to your target. Zero repercussions and all funds of victim's wallet are now useless (in the US at least) and they will receive hell from most US agencies during the investigation.




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