KYC just requires you to have the address of the customer on file. Kraken very clearly gathers your documentation when you create an account.
KYC != "we need the complete financial history of every unit of value you deposit with us." That's not how it works. You can deposit cash in a bank and they don't know where that dollar has been (statistically, it is absolutely a party to a drug transaction and even almost certainly has cocaine residue on it!)
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Somehow that's how it works with bitcoin but not cash, interesting. Despite the fact that cash is not actually that fungible (serial numbers, marked bills, digital bank ledgers) people use it fungibly quite often yet, given the same parameters bitcoin seems to fail your fungibility test.
Why is that?
It can't be tracking, ATMs read every serial number and which account withdrew them. The only difference I can see is that the ledger is public versus a private bank's SQL database.
I agree that Monero has great fungibility, I dispute its network effect capabilities but that's an entirely different point.