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This is not surprising at all, and it's been a long time coming.

It will be more interesting when the IRS starts trying to get your electric consumption data (assuming people aren't using solar panels, and/or live in a jurisdiction whose electric companies don't have to hand over such information about their customers to another governmental body) because more people are mining (inflationary) cryptocurrencies and trading that for other "assets" without going through 3rd parties like Coinbase (i.e. needing to upload any forms of government ID).

I wonder if this is the kind of stuff the G20 finance ministers will talk about at their upcoming meeting[0], though I kind of doubt it.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relat...