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The regulations do not apply to individuals using their own wallets. It is not unusual for different laws to apply to businesses and individuals.



Specifically, taking actions to evade AML regulations also gets you in trouble.

Withdrawing money from the bank for your own purposes is fine; withdrawing $9500 multiple times is fine. Making multiple withdrawals of $9500 to avoid reporting a transaction of $10,000 or more gets you in trouble, once someone notices.

Making withdrawals to yourself from Coinbase is analogously fine (to this non-lawyer), but doing so to avoid reporting transactions you are otherwise obligated to will eventually get you in trouble.




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