Doesn't sound questionable. In fact it sounds exactly what my bank does.

Unless of course cryptocurrency really is about anonymity, tax evasion and laundering money.

You're presenting a false dichotomy. The options are not:

    1. Give up your data
    2. Be a criminal

There are other options.

The options truly are just those two in my country if I want to open a bank account, buy stocks and etc, so I expected less sketchy crypto exchanges, payment/crypto acc and etc to implement the same mechanisms because otherwise it is very likely that they are simply not following my local laws and are enabling money laundering, tax evasion and other criminal activities to gain market share. The only thing that is a bit different is that if you physically go to branch they will only record your id and address (they don't need a recorded video of you saying the bank name or similar to verify that those documents belong to you).

> it is very likely that they are simply not following my local laws

Places outside of your local jurisdiction are not beholden to your laws.

Also, even you have a third option, which is to just not open a bank account. So again, it's a false dichotomy. Not to mention you could move somewhere that allows non-KYC banking. There are definitely more options than you let on.

What you said is false, if they are operating in my country (and that is true if they are opening accounts/etc to people in my country) they must comply, it doesn't matter that the server is located in another country or anything like that. About the second point sure if they are not operating from a country that requires id identification and are only dealing with clients from places like that it is true, otherwise they will get in trouble, it is just a matter of time (if I'm not mistaken there are even examples of less dumb crypto exchanges creating multiple entities in multiple countries with slightly different urls so that they can have it both ways).

Totally. BTCPay is an amazing platform for building open source cryptocurrency gateways. I wish they would spin that up and get more folks to run their own open source monetary infrastructure.