You aren't stretching it too far at all. This is the issue. The US government and corporate toadies are already choking off payments to people who they disagree with and I am sure it is going on everywhere and will continue to spread. Bitcoin as peer to peer helps to get around this. Governments around the world are teaming up with private companies to shut down speech, a perfect setup that fascists would love and yet look at Twitter, Facebook etc and the US Government.
Eventually one hopes one can remain completely in crypto so you don't need to deal with the totalitarian/authoritarians around the world.
The honest people are the ones who pay the price, the dishonest find a way around it causing them to demand more control. Bitcoin is one of the escape valves that will keep the people of the world free.
Sounds like a great idea, until you think it twice. If they get to ban a certain set of payments by law then they can do much more about it and the bad news is we are the ones who will suffer from this. Ransomware payments today, payments to addresses unknown to the Government tomorrow. Or am I stretching this too far?
Money launderers and criminals in general will find a way around this law. There are already enough Atomic Swap mechanisms and Peer-To-Peer Exchanges they can use to get so easily around it. I kind of see it similar to the current situation with Know-Your-Customer. Enforcing identity validation upon registration centralizes the personal information of legitimate customers rather than preventing crimes. And what this provokes is a potential future leak of innocent people's information, putting them under threat.
With enough decentralized solutions existing around, moving from Bitcoin to Monero or obfuscating Bitcoin history through CoinJoins and Mixers is such an easy job. Yet, the harshest laws come to us, the rest who have nothing to do with these crimes.
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