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Board Gambling
Re: Anonymity is no longer a benefit of gambling with cryptocurrency.
by
Odusko
on 10/08/2023, 18:33:34 UTC
I totally disagree on the use of KYC to counter money launderer since it’s useless in crypto because everything is decentralized and it’s very hard to spot user that laundering money and differentiates it to the normal player.

I think with the KYC on some crypto-centralised platforms like exchanges or casinos, money looting or ill-gotten gains with money can still be detected, but that's when the wallet that holds the coin has been flagged, and if it's been flagged, the centralised platform to which that coin is being deposited can freeze your asset. Depending on whether they are aware that the sender's wallet is flagged or if it's a casino that you deposited to and you also pass KYC with them, they can hand over your personal details to the investigation team that is involved, and the victim can be traced and get caught. Unless it's a crypto casino that doesn't require KYC, even if they don't require KYC but get notified that a deposit has entered their platform from a flagged wallet, if they fail to comply, the casino can still get charged by the government.

That is possible yes since you can trace which wallet that an illegal or flagged wallet address is coming from. This is also as it happens with the banks, they can trace a flagged account and in their case restrict it or limit the transaction that goes there. In cryptocurrency, whether KYC or not, government can mandate a casino on a flagged wallet if they suspect any transaction from it
This is interesting because i thought that in crypto casinos the essence of kyc was to know their customers and being able to help law enforcement agencies if need be to identify gamblers whose KYC information is available in their database, but saying that the gambler wallet could be flagged may seem and sound impossible to me and the only possible way to stop wallet is to block the user account in the casino.

You are also very correct sincea wallet can bee placed on hold, but also we must note how hard that could possibly be in a crypto casino if it traditional casino then the user bank could be restricted but the online crypto casino, the case may differ.