Quote from: Jon_Hodl on January 31, 2025, 06:28:29 PM

Let's see which European nations decide to open up their economies to the best money in history.

Very few, and if any implement it independently it will be nothing compared to the US federal government and the many states planning strategic reserves.

Quote from: takuma sato on January 31, 2025, 06:30:43 PM

The EU will never like Bitcoin because it takes away power from their ability to tax and confiscate fund, quite obviously.

You nailed it.

Quote from: takuma sato on January 31, 2025, 06:30:43 PM

Not even the US likes Bitcoin. Trump is simply a grifter and found a new voter market to get him elected, that is all. No politician cares about Bitcoin with exceptions. I think Sennator Lummis actually cares, but no one in the Trump circles cares, they are just USD maximalists.

I agree with what you say about Trump but in the people around him yes there are real bitcoiners. Vance, RFK and many others who have been appointed to important positions have statements defending bitcoin from long before it could be suspected that they could be part of the government.

Quote from: Catenaccio on Today at 02:19:24 AM

Governments in Europe, in European Union, hate their citizens, and their hate to Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies is only consequence of their hate against their citizens. They don't want their citizens to have freedom financially and they want to regulate, enforce as most mandatory regulatory things as possible, to destroy freedom and privacy of their citizens financially.

KYC, AML, CBDC, and maybe more in future are only their tools to achieve their more control on citizens financially.

That's right, more than the citizens what they hate is the freedom of the citizens, which they want to control with these measures.

Quote from: pinggoki on Today at 03:50:33 AM

...I don't think that we can do much besides lookout what can happen next to the market when their shitty CBDC has been introduced to the people.

I here the only hope I have is that the USA ban will serve to make the rest of the world rethink things otherwise the USA will be seen even more as the land of the free while in the EU (and elsewhere) governments subject citizens to total control.

Quote from: X-ray on Today at 04:09:48 AM

even with them hating bitcoin it's still going as strong as ever Cool

it just gives us more time to accumulate bitcoin, doesn't matter if they don't favor it or even preventing it from being used for central bank reserve, technology will always win at the end of the day...

Yes matters because if it is stronger than ever it is precisely because of what has happened in the US elections, not because of the entry into force of the despicable MiCA rule this 2025.