I think you are misunderstanding the reason why they are doing this, because they do not want to do this. They have to do this or they will have to close their doors. People already saw this happening a few years ago and started to work on decentralized exchanges that cannot be shutdown by these governments.

Also, people already established trustworthy trading networks before this happened, so they will just continue using this to trade. There are also forums like this with Escrow services, where you can trade bitcoins without these KYC/AML regulations. ^smile^

There is definitely something they can do about that, they just ban Crypto currencies and when you do not declare your

income and if you cannot explain the income when they do a audit on you, then they lock you up in jail. You can use

whatever service you want {centralized or decentralized} but in the end, you still have to explain this income to the tax

authorities. 

Yea, I guess if you want to stay pseudo anonymous, you will have to stay away from fiat. The other problem is, most of the

Merchants are centralized services too and some companies are just front companies for the NSA and a honey trap for other

agencies. You might go under the radar if you buy the odd sub $100 item for a while, but for larger purchases, you will have

to go through all those KYC & AML stuff. 

Why do we have to go through all this shit to survive, but Cash is pseudo anonymous. 

TuxExchange.com still has NO KYC, you can come straight from TOR with as much of whatever crypto you want and leave with whatever you want at any time, no questions asked..
You only have to verify your email and I think it can be any email.. 

According to Canadian law it is not required since Tux does not list any fiat currencies..
Their company and ownder/devs identities are legally registered in Canada..

It could be a GREAT exchange if more people would use it..

And, what to exchange there? Coin that you have to get from others exchange which accept fiat !!!
You're missing the point of the problem.

99% of people out there have FIAT and want to get into crypto.
Most of them don't give a damn about KYC but those that do are having less and less options to purchase coins anonymously.


I'm not sure that Satoshi wanted this but still, you're comparing apples and oranges.
You have anonymity purchasing stuff with cash, but you never had anonymity when changing your cash from usd to euros for example. Nor had you anonymity when you received your paycheck.

Yeah you can buy a bottle of coke anonymously with cash, the same stands for some stuff you can buy with BTC.
There is no difference there.

Once you start using your money to do financial transactions, cash was never the solution for it.

It is because of the regulation, and we all know that KYC policy is one of the rules that exchanges should follow to be able to continue to operate on a country that had implemented a rules/law about cryptocurrency. We are selling and buying cryptocurrency with fiat, so the government will enter here to protect their currency and to prevent being used on illegal activities and of course they want to have the control because it is all about money. Should we abandon pseudo anonymity? I think there are still some ways that we can use cryptocurrency anonymously, the only time that anonymity will be gone is when we use a centralized exchanges. We can also buy cryptocurrency anonymously by person to person transaction like what most people do here in the forum.