I am not sure. I don’t see much discussion about this. Just the constant complaining about KYC and chain analysis and the solution to stopping crimes is explained away as “good ol fashioned police work” but  tools to solve crimes evolve with technology which is expected.

but what's the alternative? any kind of backdoor can be abused and besides doesn't really make sense in a decentralized system

SimpleStacker

This post isn’t to support tether but to criticize how lazy bitcoin journalism can be.

Prevent the crime from happening to begin with, or find the criminals and arrest them

This is the ideal situation but it’s unrealistic. Even with all the KYC now scams are afoot. Plus bitcoin projects lead users to the kingdom of scams by having them download and use telegram to get tech support!!

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Politics_And_Law

Lazy bitcoin journalism (TFTC Bitcoin Brief)

BlokchainB

This post isn’t to support tether but to criticize how lazy bitcoin journalism can be. 

>Prevent the crime from happening to begin with, or find the criminals and arrest them

This is the ideal situation but it’s unrealistic. Even with all the KYC now scams are afoot. Plus bitcoin projects lead users to the kingdom of scams by having them download and use telegram to get tech support!!