I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify not re-using Bitcoin addresses as "mixing"There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxesAs well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)And a whole lot more bad stuff[…]
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208 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 29 May
I think this is the relevant part of the rule:
Here's a link to the rule:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-23/pdf/2023-23449.pdf
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 30 May
There are more bitcoin addresses than there are galaxies in the whole universe, but still, the US government think it's powerful enough to regulate them.
God luck with that!
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1007 sats \ 0 replies \ @travis 30 May
https://m.stacker.news/33131
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @clark 29 May
Is this partially the fault of account-style cryptos? Address reuse is the default almost everywhere else.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 30 May
Address re-use is actually pretty common everywhere.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 30 May
Lol so lightning channels are mixing too?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 30 May
I guess one way this could be implemented is by requiring CEXes to only allow withdrawals to one address as the user's own address (which they already kind-of limit withdrawals to, to make it easier to comply with the travel rule).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 30 May
Ultimately, the goal is to ban self-custody and push everyone towards the ETF.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 30 May
They want to keep track of who is using which address.
They want you to reuse the same address so they know who you are.
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