https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-12/mnuchin-warns-against-bitcoin-becoming-next-swiss-bank-account
Nothing special.
Is the usual stance they take on fiat, the same AML and KYC.
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Under U.S. law, “if you have a wallet to own bitcoins, that company has the same obligation as a bank to know” you as a customer, Mnuchin said. “We can track those activities. The rest of the world doesn’t have that, so one of the things we will be working very closely with the G-20 is making sure that this doesn’t become the Swiss bank account.”
Nothing special.
Is the usual stance they take on fiat, the same AML and KYC.
maybe, maybe not. i'm worried there is something more insidious going on. we all expect regulations to require AML/KYC from exchanges at this point. what no one is talking about is the possible expansion of the definition of "financial institution" and "money transmitter" to include many cryptocurrency services. under SB1241, anyone who is redeeming and transferring cryptocurrency on behalf of others would be considered a "financial institution" just like an FDIC-insured bank. mere tumblers who are doing nothing but mixing outputs of a supposedly fungible currency would be treated like a bank.
i am praying that SB1241 dies in committee like it did during the last congressional session. regardless, we are already seeing US-based exchanges obtaining money transmitter licenses and complying with AML/KYC. when i see talk like this, my gut reaction is to assume they want to expand this process of data retention and surveillance, not merely state the obvious (that exchanges must enforce AML/KYC).
))) lol. they can have many reason to against bitcoin like support terrorist, black money or bla bla bla 
They cannot even stop people from creating shell companies or 
