Hi, Gents,
I think there has to be a way to create a tracking system for bitcoin. Every wallet must contain ids. Otherwise, bitcoin can be always used for money laundering. If you want to launder money, you can find a cash seller everywhere. After bitcoin is bought, noone can prove whose bitcoin it is. I think this is the only think that preventing bitcoin to become a global currency. Do you think it would worth this much if it is trackable. I dont think so. There will be altcoins that work with tracking system and ids. They will become a global currency. Bitcoin? I think never. What do you think?
This is like saying that owners of physical gold need to have an id. Naturally most of them do when they try to convert it to fiat, and they probably need to show some transactions on how they came up with it when there are large enough amounts of it in order to prove it's not from illegal activity. That doesn't mean gold itself is illegal.
The open ledger is already more trackable then anything else in the history of man and it will probably we even more connected to ids in the future. And there will be more solutions trying to hide and wash transactions. I think that this will be a battle that keeps on happening and there's no solution to it, like with gold or any other commodity.
But i think, because the nature of bitcoin, regulators have to adjust to it, rather then bitcoin adjusting to anything.