What the Withdrawn Rules Would Have Required 💀
One withdrawn rule popped up first on December 23, 2020 and went straight at unhosted wallets where no bank or financial spot handles your moves. Banks and money service businesses would’ve needed to file reports plus verify IDs for any transfers over $10,000 or multiple ones hitting that mark in 24 hours. Record keeping kicked in at $3,000 and it covered foreign spots outside the usual rules too. 🕸️ The mixer proposal from 2023 would’ve slapped a special measure on blending coins to hide origins and it based everything on a section 311 finding that international mixing was a major laundering concern. If it went live covered institutions would’ve reported any mixes with foreign ties including amounts wallet addresses hashes and IPs while keeping full customer details.Industry Reaction 🦇
The Crypto Council for Innovation called both pullbacks positive for the digital asset scene in their X thread. It had flagged how the broad mixing definition could snag legit stuff and called the whole thing the rulemaking process actually working. 🔪 On the wallet side they said this stops regulators from banning or limiting self-hosted use. This happens while privacy crypto spots deal with heat like the Samourai Wallet founders pleading guilty in that big laundering case where prosecutors said it handled over $2 billion in shady txns and laundered more than $100 million. 🩸 Their lawyers tried for dismissal after a Justice Department memo said no more pursuing user actions or tech rules and they claimed internal FinCEN notes showed it wasn’t even a money transmitter. Rodriguez and Hill got five years and four years respectively with the judge noting he used his skills to enable fraud. 🌙 Supporters argued the platform was just for anonymous sends not covering crimes. 🌸Just another echo from the void by iconofsin.eth 💖