AML (Anti-Money Laundering)
Fundamentals● Common
Government regulations requiring financial institutions and exchanges to monitor transactions, report suspicious activity, and verify customer identities. In Bitcoin, AML rules force exchanges to implement KYC and transaction surveillance, conflicting with Bitcoin's privacy and permissionless ethos.
Technical Notes
Key regulations: Bank Secrecy Act (US), AMLD (EU), FATF guidelines. Requires: customer identification, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reports (SARs). Travel rule requires sharing sender/recipient info for transfers >$3000. Non-custodial wallets and peer-to-peer transactions remain outside these rules.
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Created:1/3/2026by System