{"id":26163,"date":"2023-12-03T22:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=26163"},"modified":"2023-12-03T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:35:42","slug":"crypto-collapse-sec-brings-regulatory-clarity-to-kraken-and-celsius-stablecoins-for-the-uk-crypto-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/12\/03\/crypto-collapse-sec-brings-regulatory-clarity-to-kraken-and-celsius-stablecoins-for-the-uk-crypto-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto collapse: SEC brings regulatory clarity to Kraken and Celsius, stablecoins for the UK, crypto money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy and I have another news roundup! It&#8217;s over at Amy&#8217;s. [<a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2023\/12\/03\/crypto-collapse-sec-brings-regulatory-clarity-to-kraken-and-celsius-stablecoins-for-the-uk-crypto-money-laundering\/\"><em>Amy Castor<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In this edition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The SEC helpfully hits Kraken with a hammer marked &#8220;regulatory clarity&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Celsius Network&#8217;s plan to transition to a NewCo falls afoul of the SEC needing proper accounts for pre-bankruptcy Celsius &#8212; and their QuickBooks and Google spreadsheets aren&#8217;t quite sufficient;<\/li>\n<li>North Korea&#8217;s man in Spain is arrested over money laundering;<\/li>\n<li>The FCA advocates a very odd plan for regulated UK stablecoins;<\/li>\n<li>Bitfinex definitely doesn&#8217;t have a data leak of any significance whatsoever!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/12\/03\/crypto-collapse-sec-brings-regulatory-clarity-to-kraken-and-celsius-stablecoins-for-the-uk-crypto-money-laundering\/jesse-powell-awful-tie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26164\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jesse-powell-awful-tie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jesse-powell-awful-tie.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jesse-powell-awful-tie-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jesse-powell-awful-tie-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><small>Kraken founder Jesse Powell in a random tie he found out on a road somewhere.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy a nice house, make sure the previous owner wasn&#8217;t a crypto Ponzi scammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,916,166,391,858,33,1449],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bitfinex","tag-celsius","tag-fca","tag-kraken","tag-north-korea","tag-sec","tag-stablecoin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jesse-powell-awful-tie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26167,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions\/26167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}