Dr Ronald Pol, former lawyer and researcher joins me to talk about how and why AML laws are ineffective and simply cost taxpayers, customers an incredible amount. We chat: The environment of AML laws FATF and how they create these laws Breathtaking costs Effectiveness around 0.1% KYC benefits some criminals Links: EffectiveAML.org Twitter: @ronaldpol LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpol/ Research paper: Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment Other relevant episodes: SLP165 Rafael Yakobi - Should Coinjoin Users Be Flagged? Is Privacy Illegal? SLP239 Jake Chervinsky - Pushing Back On Fincen Non-Custodial Bitcoin Regulation SLP196 Is Bitcoin Being Captured (Odell, Gladstein, Yakobi) Sponsors: Swan Bitcoin Hodl Hodl Lend Compass Mining Unchained Capital (code LIVERA) CypherSafe (code LIVERA) CoinKite.com (code LIVERA) Stephan Livera links: Show notes and website Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast Patreon @stephanlivera