By Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product
I proceed our particular bitcoin podcast collection by exploring the perceptions, realities and implications of dangerous actors in bitcoin with Jake Chervinsky. Along with serving as Normal Counsel at Compound Labs, he works on regulatory coverage for the crypto business via the Blockchain Affiliation. So, he spends a variety of time working with legislators and has an ideal sense of how they view crypto.
Are There Dangerous Actors in Bitcoin?
One of many outcomes of the Colonial Pipeline within the Might 2021 hack was the renewed storyline of bitcoin as a platform for illicit exercise. Naysayers, blamed bitcoin for the growing variety of hacks being skilled because of its ease in use of facilitating and gathering ransom calls for.
The hack shined a light-weight on bitcoin’s function within the hack, each within the ransom paid and within the ransom recovered. The actual fact bitcoin was recovered appears to counsel that bitcoin isn’t fairly the proper prison resolution some have made it out to be. Maybe that helps clarify the information level Jake shared, that illicit exercise in bitcoin made up lower than 1% complete exercise.
So, then what? If you’re contemplating an funding in bitcoin, do you have to care if the bitcoin you obtain was beforehand utilized in prison exercise? Whose accountability is it to watch for the potential of tainted coin? These are simply a few the matters Jake and I cowl. We additionally discuss rules he’s monitoring globally and his ideas about the potential of seeing a China-like crypto crackdown right here within the U.S.
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Initially printed by VanEck, 6/29/21
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