It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is routed via crypto infrastructure, then ...

The next chapter in the Tornado Cash saga just dropped. Last week a court ruled last that Tornado Cash, a bot that can be used for obfuscati...

I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have s...

Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. ...

Before anti-money laundering laws arrived in Switzerland, anyone could walk into a Swiss bank and open an account without showing any ID. Th...

We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that ...

Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases wend their way through courts in the Netherl...

Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines . Wester...