[cs702]

WINNERS: Large corporations and financial institutions. They can afford the now-required overhead for all kinds of services, including transaction processing with fees and rewards, i.e., mining, and make a nice profit at high volumes.

LOSERS: Smaller service providers. They cannot afford the now-required overhead because they don't have sufficient economies of scale.

[knorker]

WINNERS: Rule of law

LOSERS: Criminals who saw so much hope in trivially laundering their ill gotten gains now see that as slightly less likely.

[salawat]

What? You expected the U.S. Government to not go after maintaining the levers it needs to project power through economic control of who is allowed to transact what?

[starkd]

There are less heavy ham-fisted approaches they could take. But they don't seem inclined or even interested in knowing the topic well enough to figure out how to do so.