Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 11:39:12 AM

It is absolutely crazy that the community as a whole is OK with this kind of insane privacy invasion.

I found a very interesting article about it in Bitcoin Magazine (probably the best news website about bitcoin)

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A similar dynamic is in play when it comes to the AOPP. The protocol isn’t inherently bad as it simply seeks to facilitate the enforcement of wallet verifications measures in Switzerland by making an interoperable standard available to wallet developers to implement. But even though AOPP isn’t in and of itself negative, it legitimizes the practice of checking for address ownership, and implementing it opens up a precedent for having the government influence developments in the open source Bitcoin wallet space. Surveillance and control mechanisms always start small, and there is hardly a way to see ahead of one’s time and discover the true direction such requests could take.

Therefore, not implementing this standard is an act of sovereignty and responsibility as it protects users from future — and possibly worse — surveillance mechanisms being implemented as per the request of regulatory bodies.

This reminds me of the Cyberpunk Manifesto, where he clearly takes a stand against regulations on cryptography, which is what AOPP is all about.

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Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence.
Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txt