phew! i'm in the states. that explains it. thank you for sharing the link.
not that i don't expect similar policies to be rolled out in the USA---i do. i'm just enjoying the non-KYC situation while we still have it.
At the end of the day, KYC for any and every payment, no matter how small (getting KYCed to buy a pizza!) is utterly ridiculous. We should not be OK with this.
i don't know the intricacies of AMLD5 but i think it mandated a €50 limit on anonymous payment methods. IIRC even EU-based faucets and tipping services shut down because of it. so i'm not entirely surprised. brutal...