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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: robrigo on May 05, 2015, 10:46:25 PM

Title: Ripple fined $700,000. Is BitShares in the clear?
Post by: robrigo on May 05, 2015, 10:46:25 PM
FinCEN fines Ripple $700,000 for violating AML / KYC compliance and failing to register as a money services business when XRP is issued.

Because we are a community (not a company  8)), and the AGS were donated, does that allow BitShares to fly under the radar?

http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-fines-ripple-labs-700000-bank-secrecy-act/
http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/html/20150505.html
Title: Re: Ripple fined $700,000. Is BitShares in the clear?
Post by: Akado on May 05, 2015, 11:10:53 PM
I believe AGS were specifically donations to avoid these kind of problems, if im not mistaken.
Title: Re: Ripple fined $700,000. Is BitShares in the clear?
Post by: Riverhead on May 05, 2015, 11:12:07 PM
Quote from: Akado on May 05, 2015, 11:10:53 PM
I believe AGS were specifically donations to avoid these kind of problems, if im not mistaken.


And PTS was returned before the end of 2014.
Title: Re: Ripple fined $700,000. Is BitShares in the clear?
Post by: Ander on May 06, 2015, 11:16:11 PM
Yeah.  Literally everything the team did in the last two months of 2014 was aimed at making themselves safe from this kind of thing.
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