Regulatory · March 18, 2013
FinCEN issues the first US virtual-currency guidance
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FinCEN publishes FIN-2013-G001, ruling that administrators and exchangers of convertible virtual currency are money transmitters under US law — the compliance regime every US exchange still operates under.
⸺ Sources ⸺
- primaryFinCEN — FIN-2013-G001 (PDF) ↗
- primaryFinCEN news release ↗