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They can wash the coins via converting to alts and back, especially at shady foreign exchanges that don't care about KYC/AML. I don't see how the FBI has any ju
by drchopchop 6y ago
They can wash the coins via converting to alts and back, especially at shady foreign exchanges that don't care about KYC/AML. I don't see how the FBI has any jurisdiction, or even whether this is big enough potatoes for them to devote significant time and resources to.
- bradleyjg 6y agoThe US has a lot of tools at its disposal to make life difficult for foreign financial institutions. There’s no legal bar to using them here. I agree that no individual ransomware attack has yet been impactful enough to justify a national response, but cumulatively we are probably there.
- gowld 6y agoForeign attacks on the US are the jurisdiction of the trillion dollar military.