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TERMINOLOGY

KYC

Know Your Customer: identity checks an exchange requires before it moves money. A KYC account ties coins to a legal name even when the chain itself is only pseudonymous.

A later deposit from a public Bitcoin graph to a KYC exchange can reopen that graph.

Category: Payments

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