It is no surprise that anonymity has been leaving bitcoin. Bitcoin is not as anonymous as it used to be.
Monero the more anonymous bitcoin has been getting a lot of news as it is being used for many illegal purposes such as drugs and money laundering.
South Korea today, however, is increasing regulation on all cryptocurrency exchanges as reported by
https://revoltmedia.org/south-korean-new-rules-on-cryptocurrency/.
South Korean laws passed this morning are now only letting South Korean exchanges accept users if the user has real-name bank accounts connected.
Regulations like this are the first of many soon to come that will try to take anonymity from cryptocurrency.
The South Korean government reasoning was to prevent money laundering and other illegal activities.
Well they can sure as hell try to go after exchanges and force them to add individual's identities, all it will do is encourage the creation of the peer-to-peer exchange networks. It's a never-ending game at this point, they'll try their hardest to enforce some of these rules and it is just going to muck up the little control that they have already. It makes sense as to why SK is taking actions about this, though, since there is a chance that NK is using agents within the South to send money they might earn from cryptos back into their country. But that's just a conspiracy theory of mine.