https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-25/bitcoin-slides-coinbase-informs-13000-customers-imminent-data-handover-irs

What a 1,000 years we have been saying this, all exchanges are just  government fronts for the tax collector, honey-pots so they can 10X increase taxes on those who 'play'

NSA created BITCOIN, and all exchanges, and pools, and trading platforms are all owned by GOV; Perhaps some of the mining pools don't even understand they're owned by GOV, but if they're BIG they will comply, otherwise pull the plug.

What of the orginal promises of bitcoin??

privacy? security? an ALT to fiat, an escape mechanism from big-brother? but what if BTC was fed to you by big brother?