“Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has sent ‘industry outreach’ letters to about a dozen firms, regarding potential anti-money laundering compliance obligations related to Bitcoin businesses, FinCEN spokesman Steve Hudak told Thomson Reuters’ regulatory information service Compliance Complete. The letters have had a ‘chilling effect’ on Bitcoin businesses, which are intimidated by the threat of civil and criminal sanctions for non-compliance, said Jon Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, an advocacy group. The firms, he said, may effectively be ‘put out of business in an extrajudicial manner.'”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-bitcoin-letters-20131217,0,4901569.story
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