“These are, I think, objectively bad things,” she says of the crimes IRS-CI targeted. “So I guess it’s nice to see this is being used to help in these investigations. I feel good about that.” Then she launches into an explanation of why it’s not nearly so simple. Companies like Chainalysis in the budding blockchain analysis industry will make their real money, she speculates, not from contracts with the IRS or the Justice Department but from banks and exchanges who are using their services to “de-risk” their transactions, ranking a certain sum of money’s cleanliness and regulatory liability
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