Sources: Bitcoin payment processors
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Research, not advice. Part of the Bitcoin research archive (October 2026). Claims labelled unverified, contested or fringe are reported, not endorsed; statuses of bills and rules are as of the date checked. Government, court and patent records are public domain; the research notes are CC BY 4.0.
Sources: Bitcoin payment processors
Saved copies for market/2026-10-09-payment-processors.md. Everything was retrieved on 2026-10-09.
Only government documents are saved here, in full. Company pages, news articles and third-party reviews are
summarized, with links, in the market file. Each .txt file is a pdftotext -layout copy of the PDF next to it,
for searching. sha256 is the first 12 hex digits of the saved file's SHA-256.
| Title | Issuer | Date | URL | File | sha256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enforcement Release: OFAC Enters Into $507,375 Settlement with BitPay, Inc. for Apparent Violations of Multiple Sanctions Programs Related to Digital Currency Transactions | US Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control | 2021-02-18 | https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/54341/download?inline | 2021-02-18-OFAC-BitPay-settlement-enforcement-release.pdf (+ .txt) |
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| Recent Actions page for 2021-02-18 (settlement agreement between Treasury and BitPay) | OFAC | 2021-02-18 | https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20210218 | 2021-02-18-OFAC-recent-actions-BitPay.html |
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| CFPB Orders Operator of Cash App to Pay $175 Million and Fix Its Failures on Fraud (press release; consent order 2025-CFPB-0001) | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | 2025-01-16 | https://www.consumerfinance.gov/archive/newsroom/cfpb-orders-operator-of-cash-app-to-pay-175-million-and-fix-its-failures-on-fraud/ | 2025-01-16-CFPB-Block-Cash-App-press-release.html |
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| Kansas Joins $80 Million Enforcement Action Against Block, Inc. (Cash App) for BSA/AML Violations (48-state action) | Kansas Office of the State Bank Commissioner | 2025-01-21 | https://osbckansas.gov/kansas-joins-80-million-enforcement-action-against-block-inc-cash-app-for-bsa-aml-violations/ | 2025-01-21-KS-OSBC-Block-80M-multistate-press-release.html |
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| In the Matter of Block, Inc. (Block of Delaware): Consent Order ($40,000,000 penalty; independent monitor) | New York State Department of Financial Services | 2025-04-10 | https://www.dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/04/ea20250410-block.pdf | 2025-04-10-NYDFS-Block-consent-order.pdf (+ .txt) |
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| Public notice of administrative monetary penalties (list page; includes Xeltox Enterprises Ltd. / Cryptomus, C$176,960,190, imposed 2025-10-16, posted 2025-10-22, under appeal) | FINTRAC (Canada) | page read 2026-10-09 | https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/pen/4-eng | FINTRAC-public-notices-AMPs-incl-2025-10-16-Xeltox-Cryptomus.html |
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Retrieval notes
- The NYDFS PDF could not be downloaded directly with curl (HTTP 403 from the site's bot filter). The copy here is the same PDF as served to the fetch tool from the URL above: a 21-page PDF 1.7 file, signed off on 2025-04-10.
- Related documents already saved elsewhere in this repo and cited by the market file:
FinCEN guidance FIN-2019-G001 (
sources/kyc-aml/) and 31 CFR part 1022 (sources/kyc-aml/). - Not saved: the UK sanctions-list entry for Cryptomus (RUS3755) did not render for automated reading; the designation is cited from news reports in the market file.