Government 1:0 Bitcoin community
theymos what next? Non-KYC casinos and DEX Exchanges getting the hammer soon? Because the government do not have control over them?
If we start giving in to every government request and start opposing Decentralisation and privacy on a Bitcoin forum, everything Satoshi established and ideology would be for naught.
Sadly or not, Theymos is non an anonymous entity.
He's known running this forum with a real identity attached to his name. He can't run this website like a rogue, completely disregarding government instructions and laws.
Luckily the U.S. jurisdiction that he is in is pretty permissive about freedom of speech laws, but financial transactions are heavily sanctioned by the current governance system that the U.S. has.
This is a step to protect the forum as a whole. Mixers were advertised on here for long enough but the negative attention becomes too much of a risk at a certain point.