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Viewpoint: Ensuring A Level Playing Field For Federal Virtual Currency Regulation
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FinCEN's March 2013 interpretive guidance on bitcoin and
other virtual currency remains the key statement of
federal regulatory policy on the topic. In the guidance, FinCEN
sought to regulate some virtual currency activities under its
existing anti-money laundering (AML) rules applying to money
transmission, and it promised that its revised interpretation of
money transmission "does not differentiate between real
currencies and convertible virtual currencies." Read more
Originally published by Paybefore on March 8, 2016.
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