The Internal Services Revenue (IRS) has got its eye on Bitcoin. And when it comes to financial crime, there’s one thing it is closely watching: Telegram.
According to the IRS, secretive chats on Telegram, a privacy-preserving chat app that end-to-end encrypts users’ messages, are right now one the most worrying things for law enforcement officials.
That’s because peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges that operate on the popular instant messaging app can quickly and easily shift dirty or stolen funds, special agent of the IRS’s Cyber Crimes Unit, Chris Janczewski, told Decrypt.
The IRS is these days paying much closer attention to crypto crime—and the wider crypto market in general. President Joe Biden’s administration last month unveiled a new tax plan that would force businesses that conduct cryptocurrency transfers of $10,000 or more to report these dealings to the IRS.
And last week, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig asked for explicit congressional authority to regulate
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