83 sats \ 3 replies \ @supertestnet OP 25 Apr \ parent \ on: FBI warns all Americans to stop using KYC-free bitcoin services bitcoin
I think they would go after any node that relays your transactions and charge them with transmitting money sans KYC
Well, I don't think they would do that, but I wonder if they want node operators to worry about a dragnet operation -- "if I keep running this node they're coming after me!"
This sounds like a major hurdle to implement. It's only a matter of time before miners are forced to comply with KYC regulations. :)
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I’ve been talking this over with my wife the past couple of hours. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing with our node. We all knew this day would come, albeit not so soon.
Let’s assume they are going to do what they threaten here and every node operator is at risk. My big concern is my family. Let’s just say for fun that a node was being operated out of a house and there was a clear operator, but the other adults in the house knew about it. Would they be implicated? If so, could that person go on an old platform like Facebook or twitter and preemptively implicate their whole friend list in a way that’s documented? Getting ratted out early and debating the fourth amendment seems more appealing than to me than seeing my wife, who doesn’t operate the node at all, in prison with our kids all alone.
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It means IaaS like Hetzner are soon going to follow suit, I fear.
(and actually enforce their ToS)
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