Quote from: NeuroticFish on April 01, 2022, 07:18:31 AM

As @pooya87 said, everybody will just switch to the decentralized platforms. We can (and should!) use hardware wallets without their crappy wallet platforms and go on.
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We could all use some education on how to use the ledger and the trezor without their platforms. The

Even if one starts to use the hardware wallet without their platform, I guess having even once used the platform means that their servers can easily connect that address with the said device delivered to a particular address and customer?

So that renders the whole thing traceable forever I guess. I would be happy to know if someone can give information to the contrary.

Quote from: Wind_FURY on Today at 06:13:12 AM

I'm also very confident that some users would rather be "criminals" than give back some of the freedom that they have won back through Bitcoin.

These moves aren't exclusively aimed at bitcoin nor have been provoked by them. Most of this has come to pass with the growing volume of trades and transactions that are happening on smart-contract platforms and the millions being moved in NFT sales. When only Bitcoin was being used, most transactions would have been smaller P2P ones. Those on Ethereum and these other platforms with VC money are huge and have been leading to a lot of people getting scammed and losing their money, OR, in a lot of other cases people making a lot of money without having to pay taxes.

I doubt that the nation states cared till it was just people losing money to scammers. Since every kid in the basement is starting to make 1000s of dollars with NFTs and wallet farming, they don't seem to be very comfortable anymore.