The Internet of Money between Anonymity and Publicity: Legal Challenges of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Crypto Financial Landscape

POCHER, Nadia

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POCHER, Nadia

2020 • In DC JURIX 2019. Proceedings of the Seventh JURIX 2019 Doctoral Consortium

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Keywords :

Internet of Money; cryptocurrencies; DLT; blockchain; AML; CFT; pseudonymity; privacy; transparency; traceability

Abstract :

[en] This research project focuses on the impacts exerted by the tech schemes behind virtual currencies on the EU framework to prevent the misuse of the financial system and it aims to explore legal challenges posed in the IoM landscape by the double-edged nature of DLTs as both transparency and privacy-oriented. On the one hand, it plans to identify effective legislative and regulatory measures to ensure crypto accountability from an AML/CFT standpoint, as well as to assess the relevant role of pseudonymity. On the other hand, it pursues to discover innovative legal approaches to secure AML/CFT active cooperation in the crypto ecosystem(s), to the end of mitigating anonymity and traceability concerns while respecting both the value of publicity and transparency in the law and the conceptual origin of the crypto economy.

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Law, criminology & political science: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

POCHER, Nadia ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna ; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - KUL

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Language :

English

Title :

The Internet of Money between Anonymity and Publicity: Legal Challenges of Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Crypto Financial Landscape

Publication date :

2020

Event name :

7th JURIX Doctoral Consortium, DC JURIX 2019

Event date :

11-12-2019

Main work title :

DC JURIX 2019. Proceedings of the Seventh JURIX 2019 Doctoral Consortium

Publisher :

Sun SITE Central Europe, Aachen, Unknown/unspecified
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Unknown/unspecified

Pages :

1--15

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2598

European Projects :

H2020 - 814177 - LAST-JD-RIoE - Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate: Rights of the Internet of Everything

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CE - Commission Européenne [BE]

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