Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bill Cassidy are seeking information from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security on what they're doing to block crypto from being used as payment in the trading of child sexual abuse material.
“The pseudonymity provided by cryptocurrency has allowed the payments for CSAM to 'move quickly into the crypto world,' and we are committed to ensuring that Congress and the Administration have the full suite of tools needed to end CSAM and punish sellers of this material,” Warren and Cassidy wrote in their letter.
Warren and Cassidy also cited a report from Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network from 2020-2021 that said, "perpetrators of OCSE are increasingly using CVC to try to avoid detection."