The "increasing diffusion" of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Etherum promises a series of critical issues ranging from money laundering to terrorist financing. It is one of the threats of the possible applications of 'blockchain' technologies highlighted by Dis in the Annual Report to Parliament on information and security policy
The document envisages the "potential use" of cryptocurrencies also "for the purposes of tax evasion and illicit export of capital", while "in 2017 a growing number of institutions and companies, especially in the financial sector, started projects on this technology". Choice dictated, according to the analysis of the Report, "with the aim of creating innovative intangible infrastructures which allow, among other things, to reduce the costs of the operations of exchange of property titles or values".
