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FinCEN Publishes Two Rulings on Virtual Currency Miners and Investors
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today published two administrative rulings, providing additional information on whether a person’s conduct related to convertible virtual currency brings them within the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA) definition of a money transmitter. The first ruling states that, to the extent a user creates or “mines” a convertible virtual currency solely for a user’s own purposes, the user is not a money transmitter under the BSA. The second states that a company purchasing and selling convertible virtual currency as an investment exclusively for the company’s benefit is not a money transmitter. The rulings further interpret FinCEN’s March 18, 2013 Guidance to address these business models.
News Release:http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/pdf/20140130.pdf
FIN-2014-R001: Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Virtual Currency Mining Operations (http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/rulings/pdf/FIN-2014-R001.pdf)
FIN-2014-R002: Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Virtual Currency Software Development and Certain Investment Activity (http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/rulings/pdf/FIN-2014-R002.pdf)
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