Cyberattacks are spurring Congress and administration officials to push for oversight of cryptocurrency. But keeping the currency under control is an international task — one that has proven more complicated than other types of global crimefighting
likewise hamper regulators because they collect less information about transactions. Both are more popular with ransomware gangs than traditional platforms, according to cryptocurrency experts.
that Colonial Pipeline paid to its attackers. But hackers also use “privacy coins” such as Monero, which, unlike Bitcoin, keeps its ledger of transactions private.The U.S. does have tools it could use to strengthen global regulatory efforts, such as expanding assistance to struggling countries, prodding allies into action and sanctioning the most problematic cryptocurrency exchanges, industry experts say.
And U.S. officials could stress to their foreign counterparts that “if they clean up their act, that also helps with the foreign investment,” said Chris Painter, who was the United States’ top cyber diplomat from 2011 to 2017. But Biden and Congress have work to do. The State Department still lacks a cyber bureau and a lead cyber diplomat, and Spiro said Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is understaffed and under-resourced.
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