https://twiiit.com/L0laL33tz/status/2041942568959930409

nitter

"Terrorist financing" is the one major concern that will push CLARITY Act DeFi discussions on KYC/AML over the edge. And the biggest terrorist there is, according to the US, is the very country now demanding payment in BTC – explicitly to bypass sanctions and confiscation.

If you KYC every endpoint, BTC can be confiscated just as well as any other asset on earth: through the threat of force and violence. Ensuring freedom of transaction in the US (and arguably anywhere else) just became a hell of a lot harder.

econ

Iran demands passing through Strait of Hormuz to be paid in cryptocurrency

zuspotirko

[This](https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/2041942568959930409) from Lola Leetz is interesting:

>  "Terrorist financing" is the one major concern that will push CLARITY Act DeFi discussions on KYC/AML over the edge. And the biggest terrorist there is, according to the US, is the very country now demanding payment in BTC – explicitly to bypass sanctions and confiscation.
>  
> If you KYC every endpoint, BTC can be confiscated just as well as any other asset on earth: through the threat of force and violence. Ensuring freedom of transaction in the US (and arguably anywhere else) just became a hell of a lot harder.