Alexander Browder

So it's clearly a politically motivated thing.

Two months ago, on the back of my work, 26 senior MPs and lords wrote to the UK foreign secretary urging sanctions on these enablers.

Well, two weeks ago, the government responded by sanctioning these enablers.

But then what came out as a surprise to me is that I myself was sanctioned by Russia.

Exactly.

Cryptocurrency for the Russians has become one of the key tools that they use to skirt Western sanctions.

And also, not only that, to fund their war of aggression and target Western countries.

Yeah, so I'm relatively young, and so I understand the system well.

But the issue is that many people have no idea about how cryptocurrency works.

And indeed, most of the senior politicians I speak to have no idea how any of it works, how money gets laundered through cryptocurrency.

And it's a really pressing issue because you have bad actors like Iran, North Korea and Russia who are able to move billions through cryptocurrency because they can set up such advanced schemes where politicians and authorities have no idea how to stop them.