As it is speculation thread - what do you think will happen to Monero XMR and its price when Monero as anonymous cryptocurrency will be banned by government (which is quite possible at least in European Union - in the light of the new European Commission AML directive..)
I dont believe European commission will ever give such directive to its members. In more autocratic countries where that will happen I agree with bitebits. Price will increase there since it will be harder to get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZGkNPCkZkWatch here at 40:00. It is USA not EU, but you can see they are questioning how useful it is Bitcoin with transparent ledger. And its transparency call a design flaw.
Do you really believe that Apple wants for Huawei to know how much they pay their suppliers and how much they pay their researchers and engineers. Do you really believe that governments wants to reveal their spies they have in other countries and in companies by using transparent ledger cryptocurrencies. Do you really believe any police or court system will support that wealth of people is known just to anyone. Should that not put those people way more in danger and risk of being robbed?
This "opaque ledger crypto currencies will be baned" has to stop. Because it will not happen. I mean it can happen at some part of worlds. Also there will be some part of communities that will want that to happen. But on wide scale this will not happen because world, society and economy need opaque ledger crypto currencies!