This topic have taken the center stage of my thought we have seen how countries around the world are gradually opening the economy to adopt bitcoin and as a result a lot of government policies are already underway to develop a framework that allow regulation of the bitcoin ecosystem which have made me to wonder on this topic. Can a decentralized currency like bitcoin ever get regulated?
I have also been having this same thought, and so far I don’t think that it would be possible for the government to be able to directly regulate bitcoin. The only thing that they have been doing is to regulate the centralized exchanges.
Centralized exchanges are like the tool for them to regulate cryptocurrency, and when you’re making use of exchanges like which are centralized, like Coinbase, they will be able to know what you’re doing with this cryptocurrency. And that’s because these exchanges will request info from you such as name, ID, photo, address, etc. And these information that are being gathered by these exchanges can be used by the government at anytime.