Western Union Fined $586 Mln for Money Laundering, Fraudulent Transfers

in #crypto-news7 years ago

 Remittance giant Western Union has been fined $568 mln after admitting to money laundering and supporting fraudulent wire transfers. Blockchain-based technologies can prevent such criminal activities. https://cointelegraph.com/news/western-union-fined-586-mln-for-money-laundering-fraudulent-transfers

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Considering how much emphasis people seem to put on anonymity as a potential benefit of blockchain use. It would seem unlikely that prevention of money laundering will be a benefit claimed by the technology.
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ColdMonkey mines Gridcoin through generating voluntary BOINC computations for science...


Money laundering isn't fundamentally a crime. It just means you're making it hard for the busybodies to snoop. That's why I like CryptoNote coins like Monero and Bipcoin.

tHAT'S what W.U. get for not accepting bitcoin when we were bugging them about it a few years back lol

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