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AML/KYC and Sanctions Tradeoffs

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Compliance controls can reduce some abuse vectors while increasing surveillance and exclusion risks. The tradeoff analysis should separate legal requirements, policy goals, and technical limits.

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Curated resources (4)

• Bitcoin Design (article) User safety and privacy constraints under regulated onboarding models.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Anonymity Networks (article) Network privacy primitives relevant to censorship and surveillance pressure.
• Bitcoin Core Tor Documentation (article) Implementation-level tooling for reducing network-level metadata leakage.
• The Little Bitcoin Book (book) Useful for framing the civil-liberties costs of surveillance-heavy compliance systems.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Censorship Resistance
• KYC and Privacy Tradeoffs

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