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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Bitstamp imposes KYC for Dutch traders withdrawing to external wallets

To comply with Dutch regulations, Netherlands-based Bitstamp users can no longer make withdrawals without first providing photographic proof they own the recipient wallet.

Digital asset exchange Bitstamp has reportedly banned Netherlands-based users from withdrawing crypto to external wallets without first verifying they own the receiving address.

According to a letter authored by Bitstamp that was shared on Twitter by user “Bitcoin Marcus,” Bitstamp’s users in Holland must now submit third-party addresses alongside photographic evidence they own the wallet for whitelisting before withdrawals will be processed.

“Whitelisting is a security feature which was already available at Bitstamp, but now it has become obligatory for all customers affected by the new regulation in the Netherlands,” the letter stated.

Bitstamp’s new withdrawal rules are in response to anti-money laundering regulations that were drafted by Dutch regulators in November 2019 and passed into law 12 months later.

These rules stipulate that “crypto service providers must check whether their clients and any ultimate beneficiary owners are on a Dutch or European sanctions list” before providing services, and monitor all “incoming and outgoing payment transfers.”

In November, Netherlands-based Bitcoin exchange Bitconic informed its users they needed to comply with the new verification measures for withdrawals. At the time, the exchange called the enforcement of the central bank’s policy “a nuisance.”

Bitstamp users went further in their criticism of the regulations, with Twitter user “xcsler” mocking the exchange’s efforts to comply with Dutch law:

“Clearly, the next step will be to make people responsible for all subsequent transactions from that whitelisted address.”

In November, quantitative analyst PlanB likened the Dutch regulations to policies recently recommended by U.S. Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong made waves online at the time, expressing major concerns over Mnuchin’s proposed regulation on self-hosted crypto wallets. 

It is not yet clear how incoming U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will handle KYC/AML enforcement in the crypto space. Lawyer Jake Chervinsky has argued that Mnuchin’s policy has "exactly zero chance" of becoming an enforceable law under Biden’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen.

Cointelegraph reached out to Bitstamp for comment, but did not receive a reply at the time of publication.

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