Or am I wrong and the “powers that be” are winning and people will lose in the crypto world?
Your thoughts?
Governments and authorities are working to make BTC as centralized as they can. And they are doing every possible thing to eliminate all the tools and platforms that provide us anonymity. But still where is demand there is supply. One will be closed other will rise. The point is why they are against anonymity. Why they want to keep the track of our money?
Well, answers to these questions are not so hard. Speaking of the fiat system it can't be devalued or eliminated. Because banks (fiat) is directly related to BTC. And most of the platforms which excluded the banks from the centre as middlemen and directly allowed people to deal with Crypto or BTC with fiat and vice versa are being used in bad usecases.
Which is not good for the future of BTC therefore IMHO such rules and regulations are good to some extent as traditional people will only accept or adopt it until governments won't do something about it. Either they will go against or in support of it.