{"id":1352,"date":"2019-09-25T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2019-09-26T02:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T02:41:52","slug":"crypto-currency-human-trafficking-legislation-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/crypto-currency-human-trafficking-legislation-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Currency + Human Trafficking Legislation + Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who is calling for Human Trafficking legislation to include a cryptocurrency angle? <\/strong>former director of the Office of Illicit Finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the link between human trafficking and cryptocurrency?<\/strong> human traffickers use anonymous, decentralized financial systems (bitcoin etc&#8230;) to shield payments of unlawful activities from police and regulators<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How can this be regulated?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Better oversight over cryptocurrency miners by tracking excessive electricity usage <\/li><li>Create a new form of regulated financial institution, a \u201cvirtual asset transaction validators,\u201d , crypto miners<ul><li>the financial transaction validators would be gatekeepers to watch for bad actors<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/fintech-and-regulation-bitblog-weekly-update\">National Law Review | <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/fintech-and-regulation-bitblog-weekly-update\">Former Director of Office of Illicit Finance Calls on U.S. Congress to Regulate Crypto Miners in Effort to Combat Human Trafficking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is calling for Human Trafficking legislation to include a cryptocurrency angle? former director of the Office of Illicit Finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury What is the link between human trafficking and cryptocurrency? human traffickers use anonymous, decentralized financial systems (bitcoin etc&#8230;) to shield payments of unlawful activities from police and regulators How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}