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KYC - Know Your Customer

KYC is an acronym for “know your customer”. It is a regulatory process used by cryptocurrency exchanges in order to verify customer identities by collecting personal information and their government-issued identification. This is done in order to comply with the law in order to prevent illegal activities such as money laundering.