{"id":1258,"date":"2018-12-03T00:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2023-08-28T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:39:56","slug":"the-future-of-bitcoin-kyc-ctf-aml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/the-future-of-bitcoin-kyc-ctf-aml\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Bitcoin KYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of two Iranian SamSam ransomware bitcoin addresses to the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list ushered in a new era in Know Your Customer, Counter Terrorist Financing and Anti-Money Laundering (KYC\/CTF\/AML) regulation compliance for bitcoin transactions. From now on, no one is allowed to transact with these two bitcoin addresses:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a significant first. For responsible crypto exchanges and bitcoin ATMs operating in this wild west legal environment there are very few FREE KYC\/CTF\/AML compliance tools available. BitcoinWhosWho.com provides open-source data necessary to adhere to burgeoning global KYC\/CTF\/AML procedures involving bitcoin transactions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monitor OFAC List<\/strong><br \/>\nPrevent scam addresses from registering at an exchange.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bitcoin Transaction Profiling<\/strong><br \/>\nWarn customers <em>before<\/em> they send bitcoin to an accused scammer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wallet Risk Assessment<\/strong><br \/>\nMark wallets which have transacted with &#8220;scam&#8221; wallets to a higher degree of risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Exchanges and ATM providers are always looking for innovative and cost effective layers to protect their customers from fraud. BitcoinWhosWho.com provides multiple solutions derived from both crowdsourced and web-crawler based methods. There is no greater regulator than the collective knowledge of the crypto community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin Who&#8217;s Who APIs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blacklisted Bitcoin API<\/strong><br \/>\nThis API returns all scam reports crowdsourced from registered website users on the bitcoin address in JSON.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Sightings API<\/strong><br \/>\nThis API returns any website URL appearances for the bitcoin address in JSON. Public sighting are collected by a web crawler and occasionally augmented with BitcoinWhosWho staff manual additions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SOON!! Tags API<\/strong><br \/>\n[Not Yet Available] This API will soon return short bitcoin address labels or &#8220;Tags&#8221; crowdsourced from Bitcoinwhoswho.com website visitors (anonymous or registered).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To register for a FREE BitcoinWhosWho.com API key; login and go <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/api\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Or learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin Who&#8217;s Who Special Access Privileges<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scam Viewer<\/strong><br \/>\nBrowse and download a live list of all reported bitcoin scam addresses. Research further details about a particular scam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NEW!! Tag Viewer<\/strong><br \/>\nBrowse all crowdsourced bitcoin address tags in realtime. Research further details provided about a particular tag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special access privileges are granted only upon email request to admin bitcoinwhoswho.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of two Iranian SamSam ransomware bitcoin addresses to the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list ushered in a new era in Know Your Customer, Counter Terrorist Financing and Anti-Money Laundering (KYC\/CTF\/AML) regulation compliance for bitcoin transactions. From now on, no one is allowed to transact with these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/the-future-of-bitcoin-kyc-ctf-aml\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future of Bitcoin KYC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,63,60,62],"tags":[104,103,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}