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The government doesn't need to prove a bitcoin address belongs to someone on the sanctioned list, the specific intermediaries used aren't important. Proving tha
by gnopgnip 5y ago
The government doesn't need to prove a bitcoin address belongs to someone on the sanctioned list, the specific intermediaries used aren't important. Proving that you know you are paying someone on the sanction list is enough.
- jrochkind1 5y agoYou misread my point. In fact, the article suggests they don't even need to prove that you know you are paying someone on the sanction list. > In a pair of advisories, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned that facilitators could be prosecuted even if they or the victims did not know that the hackers demanding the ransom were subject to U.S. sanctions. Indeed, that means it is legally dangerous to pay anyone whose identity you don't know. That is what I'm saying, yes.