The ideology behind crypto is freedom and liberty from the current government system(s) that are inherently wrong and elitist.
HOWEVER
Centralised exchanges such as Coinbase, Kraken and Binance take a noble idea of bringing Bitcoin to the masses and mock it by affiliating with governments (and governmental agencies) that the very concept of Bitcoin is designed to rebel against.
Big CEXs are killing the original bitcoin spirit by forcing users to pay tax on gains, freezing user's assets, preventing users from using their service depending on their IP and more.
This is horrible. This is not what bitcoin is. This is not freedom. This is not liberty.
Taxes contribute to the regimes that so many of us are against. How can we continue using companies whose values don't align with ours?
if you want to use a business that is involved in money services (exchanging bitcoin for fiat) then you have to accept that the need of the FIAT part then becomes a need to obide by fiat laws.
just becasue one side of a buy-sell is bitcoin. does not 100% absolves a trade from fiat laws.. because the other side of a buy-sell is fiat
this is not the fault of the business. its the fact that any business doing money services using fiat needs to obide by fiat laws
EG just because you want a banana. but want to trade fiat for a banana. does not automatically free a retailer of its fiat obligations of sales tax purely because your personal interest is only banana's
the very fact that you want to involve a trade of a banana for fiat makes your real physical need of the swap, then forcing the service that provides that swap for you to obide by fiat laws. you WANT a banana but you NEED a service that swaps fiat for banana's. so retailers have to obide by fiat laws to satisfy your banana 'WANTS'
yes you can say 'but all i want is a banana' but reality is if your at a retailer trying to get a banana, you actually are part of the fiat-banana trade. so you actually need fiat aswell.
as for pretending 'de-fi' and 'd-ex' things will solve this.
well it wont last long.
any human/entity offering a service for swaps, and receives a fee for offering the service of swaps. needs to register as a money service business. if they dont and they are found. they can get highly punished
just trying to pretend your a Dex or a De-fi does not absolve you of a financial crime an authority defines.
your protection is not 100% that bitcoin is untraceable pseudonomous. because authorities can find you by tracing the fiat instead
(high amount of personal wire transfers to lots of different people each day.. its how they found the 'localbitcoin' traders)
bitcoin does not make fiat laws get repealed simply becasue 50% of a trade is bitcoin.. because the other 50% is stil fiat. thus fiat laws still apply