Well I think it's a serious matter, even though the purpose they create that article is to promote their service, but the news is legit.
The article mixes two different things:
- "AML compliance" or the "tainting of coins" (mixing in news about hacks and thefts)
- the (legit) news about new reporting requirements in some countries in 2026, like in the UK (CARF) and the EU (DAC8).
What's changing is mainly that CEXes will have to report crypto activities to tax authorities. But the "tainting of wallets" is not really related to that. So the "scare" intent is quite obvious here.
Let's say you avoid to use centralization at all cost, the miners can blacklist your address, so your transactions will stuck and not included on block. Although currently only few mining pools did that, who knows this new implementation force the other miners to agree and also block the blacklisted address.
This has been discussed a lot and it is believed to be borderline impossible. There will always be that pool or solo miner who will include any transaction if the fee is high enough. Mining blacklisting is also not part of the proposed regulations, other than some very extreme proposals by politicians like Elizabeth Warren.