Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, responsible for countering financial crime, Sigal Mandelker called the virtual currency on Wednesday “a growing threat.” This opinion she expressed at a meeting of the Senate Committee of the US Congress.
The financial department “acts ahead of [against] the developing threats,” Mandelker noted, citing her virtual currency. “We are leading international efforts to reduce the risks of illegal financing of promising technologies, such as the use of seven virtual currencies.” We are acting as the supervisory authority for this new industry,” the deputy minister stressed.
According to her, at present the United States, Japan and Australia “are among the few countries that regulate exchange and payment activities with the participation of a virtual currency, in particular, with a decentralized convertible virtual currency.”
Mandelker noted that the agency is currently collecting information about a hundred sites where virtual currency trading is being conducted “in connection with the suppression of financing of illegal activities.
On January 17, the bitokoy rate fell below the $ 10K mark, according to the data of the electronic currency exchange Coindesk. As of 14:52 Moscow time bitkoyna rate was $ 9,962 thousand (a decrease of 12.2%).
Bitcoin is a decentralized system of the same name for crypto currency based on blocking technology, which any user – participant of the system can “emit”, creating new blocks of the system with the help of a computing device.
The concept of the system was published in November 2008. The rapid growth of popularity bitcoin occurred only in recent years. The emission of this currency is naturally limited, and at the moment most of the bitcoins are already “mined”.
