FBI weighs paying confidential informants in crypto
- —FBI staff say crypto could effectively replace cash for paying informants
- —Digital payments are currently allowed only in exceptional cases with no controls
- —Justice Department to assess data-leak and operational-integrity risks
- —On-chain history and exchange KYC reduce anonymity of such payments
Why it matters: If approved, crypto payments to informants would formalize digital assets in sensitive US government operations.
Source: Cryptoast