Australian Government Tracking AUD-to-Bitcoin Conversions
It is being reported that the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (also known as Austrac) is able to and is actively tracking conversions from the Australian dollars to bitcoin and vice-versa. The government agency is responsible for preventing money laundering and terrorism financing, so it doesn't quite come as a surprise that they would be following these types of transactions. "Australia is very fortunate among its international counterparts, in that we are one of the few countries which currently collects all international funds transfers, into or out of Australia,"....
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