Quote from: yhiaali3 on Today at 01:48:35 AM

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Glad to see Bitcoin achieve those goals. Bitcoin deplore regulations, and is basically immune to them (if we manage to keep it decentralized)

Indeed we are happy to see Bitcoin achieve these goals, the most important thing that attracted me to Bitcoin is these things I mean privacy and decentralization. This space gives you freedom and keeps you out of the sight of observers and the arms of governments trying to control all of our actions.

But my question is, are we beginning to lose this?
First there is KYC as most of the exchanges and important service sites have become required to activate KYC and this completely corrupts privacy,
Second, exchanges have recently become refusing to deposit bitcoin mixture !!!
Third, there are some large institutions that have acquired a lot of important services and sites in Crypto (Binance, for example). This puts all of these things in the
hands of one organization and this is close to centralization.

All of these things corrupts privacy and decentralization and make this beautiful dream an illusion on the ground !!
For example, I am from a banned country. Most exchanges prohibit me because I am from this country !!! Where is privacy and decentralization here??!! Is this freedom that I was dreaming??!!

I see the same things as you, what started as a perfect thing had changed so much. I hate to say it, but the majority of the compromise comes from people not willing to take a high risk with the exchanges. When Cryptsy went down and the courts took over reclaiming funds for everyone, we began to give up our control over the BTC networks then. I would never begrudge a person in trying to get their stolen money returned, but we say we want to keep the system, the government and the big boys out, but as soon as we get in troubled waters, that is where we run for help. We cannot expect to have a government that is willing to back us up in the case of loss, and not have them apply some rules to protect against that loss. That is like saying we want murderers to be jailed, but not have any police to stop the murders in the first place. I don't know if we can ever get back to where things were, without, perhaps taking a good look at dark web exchanges, which makes everyone distrusting, but we simply can't have it both ways.