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by toomuchtodo 1516 days ago
> Descriptively, it is untrue that there is some sort of wide scale crack down on anonymous crypto transactions in the west.

Europe: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2022/html/ecb.sp220...

US Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

UK: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/uk-to-mint-its-own-nft-and-p...

China: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/24/china-says-all-cryptocurre...

South Korea: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42784384

Japan: https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/financial-services-age...

Caveat being India and Japan, these are the top 10 economies in the world.

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C'mon. Stop. You know that the government is not going around raiding crypto meetups and arresting people.

People send crypto transactions all the time and don't get arrested.

I know this. You know this. We don't have to pretend.

People use crypto all the time and don't get in trouble for it. We both know this.

I used crypto just this morning on chain. Nothing happened to me, even though I didn't send a KYC letter to the government about it.

The government isn't going to show up at my doorstep tomorrow because I used a smart contract.

Your feelings, are what is called "cope". People have been predicting for years and years that all the crypto people were going to be sent to jail, yet it keeps not happening.

Instead, the only thing that has happened, is that more and more of the entire tech industry has moved towards using more crypto.

I went to GDC a couple weeks ago, and I learned that a freaking 3rd of the video games industry is desperately trying to figure out how to add NFTs to their games.

I wonder what industry will be next? And will it ever been enough, to dismiss the constantly wrong people, who continue to be wrong about all the crypto people going to jail? Because I remember the same arguments a decade ago. Still hasn't happened yet.

I still go to crypto meetups every week, and I am not seeing the police raids, for all the illegal things that you think we are doing.

Or, in other words. Cope.