Maybe designer in CIA or FBI?) Your argument that KYC "can help to sift through competition and reduce multi-accounts" is like arguments of some government regulators that "banning bitcoin and crypto currencies will help us to reduce terrorism and drug traffic")) KYC can reduce the quantity of bounty hunters, because most people just like me, will leave the platform with KYC and will find the platform without KYC in order not to repeat the case with Bittrex data leakage. And what about unfair users with multi-accounts, I think if they are so cunning to manage with 20 accounts, they will manage with KYC too.
Bittrex is my favourite exchange. I like its design and it has a lot of altcoins to trade. Also I trade on Binance, Cryptopia and some other exchanges, and I haven't go through KYC process on them. What is ED? I haven't heard about it.
I heard your argument, it's your right.
My opinion is that the KYC (or another form of indexing) is necessary and, in the end, everything will come to this and will come
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