For regulated Money Service businesses, having an effective AML program is essential.
We've learned that existing solutions are:
  1. too expensive
  2. too invasive
  3. ineffective for lightning
To prove it can be better, we're launching a free trial of our continuous monitoring.
Is this for every node on the lightning network? Absolutely not.
Running bitcoin infrastructure is freedom in finance.
Running a Money Service Business is specific, regulated activity that operates within a jurisdiction and must abide by AML laws as well as OFAC.
For other businesses that send payments, bitcoin is digital cash of the future that's primed to help businesses grow: it's like hooking your business up to the internet.
Unfortunately, that doesn't stop wild accusations of terrorist finance occurring in bitcoin.
The early days of the internet scared regulators into thinking it's only for drug dealers and pornographers. The reality is much different: the internet is for cat videos.
The future of finance shouldn't get bogged down by naive accusations of terrorism and money laundering.
Instead, bitcoin businesses need our support to show that commerce can happen on better financial rails with bitcoin. It's not money for criminals; it's money for humanity.
What's needed for businesses is a consistent program that demonstrates precautions against funding terrorists and money launderers. That doesn't need to be expensive or invasive.
We'll prove it with a 14 day trial of continuous risk monitoring.
In a daily email, your business will receive actionable steps to avoid:
  • OFAC Risks,
  • Ransomware,
  • Sanctions violations
This is part of a comprehensive program to secure your lightning operations against risks, and minimize the attack surface for unhinged accusations.
To find out more about our Reflex Payment Operations suite for businesses, visit https://rpo.dev .
343 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 23 Apr
Building tools to make compliance easier is equivalent to helping the regulators enforce compliance.
Meanwhile, we (the ones who must comply) have to pay for this service? Shouldn't amboss just be funded by OFAC and the IRS directly?
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That's not true. If it was, then you should be haranguing TurboTax.
If you're not running a Money Services Business, you don't have compliance obligations. This isn't for you anon.
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This isn't for anyone
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Regulatory capture at its finest. There is no legal requirement for this.
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FUCK AMBOSS, BOYCOTT AMBOSS COMPLIANCE IS WHAT WILL KILL BITCOIN.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @xz 23 Apr
How did Reflex build the site https://rpo.dev/monitoring to plug in to amboss?
Curious about the general approach to front end back end. But I don't know enough.
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Reflex is a product that is only for businesses so it needed a separate site for landing, marketing materials, and future development.
Amboss space is consumer focused but we built Reflex as a subsection of Amboss to preserve the account infrastructure we created as part of Amboss.
Reflex doesn't require operating a node, but amboss space does.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @xz 23 Apr
Ah I see thanks. I was thinking the sites were integrated. Different market, different products..
So when monitoring from Reflex it's from another nodes perspective of the LN graph. LN stats for payment processors and ancillary businesses. Do node on different protocols have same data footprints or not possible to monitor in the same ways?
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That's beyond our ability to monitor; we primarily deal with analyzing already public data.
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Clearly there are two ways of looking at this. Monitoring tools cut both ways. I suppose that epistologically, a pair pf eyes are monitoring tools. It's generally beneficial because nearly everyone has them.
I haven't found so much need to monitor other nodes on the network yet. But still feel it's good to see tools being developed.
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Great! I've never listened about such a thing that can monitor nodes.
Thanks for the information.
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