Ryan Shea is a crypto economist at Trakx. He has worked in finance for two decades including senior positions in buy/sell-side institutions (ADIA/State Street/Lehman brothers) in roles including macroeconomic research, investment strategy and portfolio management. He holds BSc/MSc in Economics from the University of London.
"It is impossible to confiscate properly stored cryptocurrencies at scale." "The main attack vector would be seizing custodial bitcoin holdings." "What may happen is that governments start limiting self-custody."
Earlier this month the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee agreed draft rules strengthening EU rules against money laundering and terrorist financing. What is your assessment of the proposals?
ENTRETIEN. Alors que les cryptomonnaies n’ont jamais été aussi volatiles, l’économiste britannique Ryan Shea explique qu’on aurait tort deles enterrer.
What made it possible in this instance was the alleged perpetrators stored their private keys in a cloud account and law enforcement obtained a search warrant to access this account.