Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges are increasingly being targeted for their often flagrant disregard of basic anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements. But regulators wanting to target decentralized exchanges may be caught in a bind \u2014 how do you regulate what you can\u2019t isolate?In the spring of 2002, Paul Bladscoe, a U.S. Special Forces soldier was speaking via his interpreter to a local tribal leader in the dusty, sand swept hills of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, trying to get leads on the location of another Al-Qaeda leader.The U.S. War on Terror was just getting into full swing and Bladscoe was one of dozens of Special Forces teams spread across Afghanistan, from the tundra to the hot and humid lowlands, hunting for Al-Qaeda leaders responsible for the deadly September 11 attacks on U.S. soil, as well as their Taliban hosts.But what Bladscoe was increasingly realizing was that taking out one Al-Qaeda leader had a limited effect on the organization\u2019s capability to strike back.With every successful raid on an Al-Qaeda leader, Bladscoe noted an increase in counter attacks, whether ambushes on U.S. outposts, or a spike in IEDs or improvised explosive devices being found on U.S. supply routes.It was almost as if like the mythic hydra, cutting off one head of the snake created two new snakes, and sometimes more.All across the Afghan battlefield, Special Forces commanders like Bladscoe were reporting similar experiences back to headquarters, while thousands of miles away in Washington, Pentagon officials were struggling to combat an organization that had no clear reporting lines and no defined leadership.Although Osama bin Laden has often been viewed as the leader of Al-Qaeda, the reality is that individual units, or terror cells on the ground have acted for years without any centralized planning and with a high degree of autonomy and independence.When the Americans first encountered Al-Qaeda,\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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