https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Anti-Money_Laundering 2026-09-20T16:49:18Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.9 https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Anti-Money_Laundering&diff=71123&oldid=prev 2026-08-20T17:55:27Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Bitcoin features which affect AML: </span> typos</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:55, 20 August 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bitcoin contains many concepts which are all inspected by AML compliance tools. Addresses and transactions do not contain a person&#039;s legal identity. A service can, however, associate addresses and transactions with customer records, bank transfers, IP addresses or other off-chain information.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bitcoin contains many concepts which are all inspected by AML compliance tools. Addresses and transactions do not contain a person&#039;s legal identity. A service can, however, associate addresses and transactions with customer records, bank transfers, IP addresses or other off-chain information.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Transactions can always be retrieved for analysis if they have <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ben </del>confirmed in a block or downloaded from the [[mempool]], even if <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>dropped from the mempool later. Researchers have shown that address clustering and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">supplimentary </del>information can associate addresses with services and users.&lt;ref name="fistful"&gt;{{cite journal|url=https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/december-2013-volume-38-number-6/fistful-bitcoins-characterizing-payments-among|title=A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names|author=Meiklejohn, Sarah; Pomarole, Marjori; Jordan, Grant; Levchenko, Kirill; McCoy, Damon; Voelker, Geoffrey M.; Savage, Stefan|journal=;login:|volume=38|issue=6|date=December 2013|accessdate=7 August 2026}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Transactions can always be retrieved for analysis if they have <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">been </ins>confirmed in a block or downloaded from the [[mempool]], even if <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </ins>dropped from the mempool later. Researchers have shown that address clustering and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">supplementary </ins>information can associate addresses with services and users.&lt;ref name="fistful"&gt;{{cite journal|url=https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/december-2013-volume-38-number-6/fistful-bitcoins-characterizing-payments-among|title=A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names|author=Meiklejohn, Sarah; Pomarole, Marjori; Jordan, Grant; Levchenko, Kirill; McCoy, Damon; Voelker, Geoffrey M.; Savage, Stefan|journal=;login:|volume=38|issue=6|date=December 2013|accessdate=7 August 2026}}&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A self-custody user can control keys and transact without depositing bitcoin in an exchange. A transfer between two self-hosted wallets therefore has no regulated intermediary carrying out customer due diligence or filing a suspicious transaction report.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A self-custody user can control keys and transact without depositing bitcoin in an exchange. A transfer between two self-hosted wallets therefore has no regulated intermediary carrying out customer due diligence or filing a suspicious transaction report.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key db_bitcoin_en:diff:1.41:old-71120:rev-71123:php=table --> </table>

Nanotube https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Anti-Money_Laundering&diff=71120&oldid=prev 2026-08-07T10:24:17Z

<p>Expand AML section</p> <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Anti-Money_Laundering&amp;diff=71120&amp;oldid=27044">Show changes</a>

NotATether https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Anti-Money_Laundering&diff=27044&oldid=prev 2012-05-22T05:04:06Z

<p><span class="autocomment">See Also: </span> Fix link.</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:04, 22 May 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.bitinstant.com/static/aml.pdf BitInstant Anti-Money Laundering policy]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.bitinstant.com/static/aml.pdf BitInstant Anti-Money Laundering policy]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [Category:Money_transmitters|Money transmitters] category</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[:</ins>Category:Money_transmitters|Money transmitters<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>] category</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Legal]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Legal]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Financial]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Financial]]</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key db_bitcoin_en:diff:1.41:old-27043:rev-27044:php=table --> </table>

Sgornick https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Anti-Money_Laundering&diff=27043&oldid=prev 2012-05-22T05:03:42Z

<p>Create article for Anti-Money Laundering and add to Legal and Financial categories.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Anti-money laundering (AML) is a term mainly used in the financial and legal industries to describe the legal controls that require financial institutions and other regulated entities to prevent, detect and report money laundering activities.<br /> <br /> Bitcoin exchanges may be considered to be money service businesses, or money transmitters possibly even, depending on the jurisdiction. For money service businesses and money transmitters operating in the U.S., the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is the regulation the requires specific AML-related recordkeeping and reporting actions.<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> <br /> * [http://www.bitinstant.com/static/aml.pdf BitInstant Anti-Money Laundering policy]<br /> * [Category:Money_transmitters|Money transmitters] category<br /> <br /> [[Category:Legal]]<br /> [[Category:Financial]]</div>

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