According to the source, Arthur Hayes will appear on PrivacyInMotion with Midnight Network and Brave to discuss the trade-off between user privacy and systemic legitimacy and whether Bitcoin is truly private money, as posted on November 10, 2025. Source: the source post dated November 10, 2025. For traders, this theme ties directly to compliance obligations such as the FATF Travel Rule requiring virtual asset service providers to transmit sender and recipient information, which shapes exchange policies and liquidity conditions for privacy features and assets. Source: Financial Action Task Force, Recommendation 16 and related guidance. Bitcoin’s ledger is public and transactions can be linked on-chain, meaning BTC is pseudonymous rather than fully private, a fact that influences how privacy tooling and KYC frameworks interact with trading venues. Source: Bitcoin Whitepaper 2008, Section Privacy. Enforcement against privacy mixers has affected user access routes, exemplified by OFAC’s sanctions on Tornado Cash in 2022, a development traders monitor when assessing counterparty risk and potential flow disruptions. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, OFAC press release August 8, 2022. U.S. guidance classifies many custodial crypto services as money transmitters subject to KYC/AML, affecting onboarding and withdrawals that can alter spreads during policy headlines. Source: FinCEN Interpretive Guidance, May 9, 2019.

According to the source, leaked documents allege an $8 billion crypto network facilitating Russia’s sanctions evasion, underscoring the scale of sanctions circumvention in digital assets. The source post provides only a headline and link with no asset-level names, exchanges, wallets, or immediate market reaction data, according to the source.