Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon

Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by sph on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:40AM (#45915412)

This will initially go the same way as the porn ban that's being enacted all over Europe — VPN usage will skyrocket, people will still do whatever they want.

Then they will have to resort to the only other alternative: require a government ID and static IP allocation to access to the internet, for complete surveillance and traceability. You know it's coming.

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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by mothballed on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:00AM (#45915678)

A lot of people have bought real, legal, government IDs from places like Palau[] which sell them for like $300 and no crime is committed by doing so.

[] https://rns.id/app/palauidinfo

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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by csomar on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:27AM (#45916018)

I guess what the parent is saying is that every user will be issued a private/public key pair to be able to access the internet. You can, maybe, buy one. But it’ll be easy for the gov. to ban it.

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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by torlok on Thursday November 13, 2025 @05:20PM (#45921424)

"All over Europe" meaning UK, France, and Italy.

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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by sph on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:28AM (#45924434)

If you think it’s gonna be limited to those three you haven’t been paying attention.

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Re:Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enfor... by epolanski on Thursday November 13, 2025 @07:43PM (#45922562)

Nobody cares about privacy coins but criminals.

There's 0 real world cases for them except some extremely far fetched ones.

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