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Re:EU draft proposes identity requirement for cryptocurrency... by jacquesm on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:13PM (#30392465)
That reporting threshold is a direct consequence of tricks like mixers and other anonymizers. It is a neat tech trick but it is also just another form of smurfing / structuring.
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Re:EU draft proposes identity requirement for cryptocurrency... by miohtama on Saturday February 19, 2022 @07:31AM (#30396647)
Do you think there could better ways to automate smurfing detection that setting the reporting threshold to zero?
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