[quote author=https://njump.me/nevent1qqstf99gr6n408rdqqt4su3yw2agdw6ydjy69apae7pkpsgrpk7yevspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9enx6apwwa5h5tnzd9aqz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hst0vkjz]I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing"
There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes
As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)
And a whole lot more bad stuff
IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech
They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have
They sue the OFAC and Treasury
They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly
I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today
coincenter.org
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Now, I have seen stupid bills proposed by this house before, but this is the absolute most ridiculous piece of legislation I have ever seen.
To say that not reusing an address is mixing? Man, what happens when someone only receives a payment one time and doesn't move the funds?
Also what is stopping people from creating a new transaction that sends the UTXO from the address back to itself in a new UTXO?
They don't even know anything about how crypto works and they are already greedy and trying to extract taxes from Americans and apparently non-Americans too since there is no way you can differentiate between them or force an open-source software to give you an ID.