Fckers are already doing a good job of making it difficult. Those who are already familiar with Bitcoin know how to navigate around it. However, for upcoming new Maxi's, it's going to be difficult, and they might fall into the trap easily.
But we already have 90% of BTC in circulation. Enough to start a bitcoin circular economy.
I still do not understand why people do not start demanding to be paid in BTC and not buying it anymore.
I just don't see how you could possibly live on a bitcoin standard without kyc coins. What happens when you want to buy a house? Are you going to spend the time finding thousands of buyers to take your coins? You'll end up labelled a money transmitter if the feds find out. Which they will when those funds hit your bank account before being turned into a mortgage loan or whatever.
It's a cute larp, and most people should have at least some KYC-free coins, but I just don't get how that scales when you need to spend/sell bitcoin in the 5, 6, or 7 figures range.
The government has full control and visibility of the exit ramp. Like - what are you using to buy bitcoin? A debit card? A bank account? How many of us are paying with physical cash?
At some point you're converting USD to bitcoin, and you're probably doing it electronically. If the government really wants to criminalize bitcoin and confiscate everyone's keys, can't they just look at your bank account to see if you've ever paid for bitcoin? Isn't that all they really need to know to investigate you?
The essential properties of money don't include privacy. Bitcoin is literally a public ledger. 🤷🏻♂️
But none of that matters because of how easy it is to prevent anyone, including the government, from stealing your keys.
Then you're talking about full on civil unrest at this point, if not the complete downfall of the United States... Doesn't seem like they'd self sabotage like that.
And again, that doesn't really fix the "infeasibility of non-KYC" issue anyway.
True, Bitcoin in its current form can be used to create the most horrible surveillance nightmare on the planet. Monero fixes this (as bitcoiners sadly wont).
I am not sure what monero fixes since I am not an expert of private coins. I also do not know how to verify these coin's privacy approach. By the way if we are already discussing this, could you tell me how can be verified the supply of Monero if the balance of addresses are unknown ? To continue, have you checked the performance of monero compared to btc ? I believe monero is rather a tool than a currency. Again you may know much more about this topic however this is how I see it. Feel free to correct me.