Crypto projects are all trying to get regulated because retail consumers think regulated = safe. But that's not the case. Crypto is about taking back our freedom and privacy. Its a shame even DEXs like IDEX are doing KYC now.

It's just the simple fact that they're not decentralized, especially these "decentralized" exchanges. If they were actually decentralized, then the government wouldn't even be able to force anyone KYC because who would they send their warnings to in the first place? The fact that there's one company working on IDEX(Aurora Labs S.A.) working on it is enough evidence that it's nowhere decentralized.

Why Chrome would need KYC when Google already knows everything about us. If you're using Google products, cookies settings won't help you to hide from being spied. Google knows where you been yesterday or month ago, what are your interests and etc. It's much bigger thing thsn all these KYC.

Authorities in certain *cough* jurisdictions may still one day decide to pull tricks that anyone who contributes in any way to the development of Bisq or its infrastructure, i.e. seeing for example how Etherdelta's owner had to pay a big fine, can face responsibility.


Google probably knows its average user better than all their loved ones put together.

True, but they could also one day do the same thing to bitcoin developers or even anyone they find mining or running a full node. Bitcoin of course wouldn't end or shutdown, it would be continued by people both fighting those laws and in the hundreds of other jurisdictions where those laws don't apply.

I would say that's a certainty. Would you give your loved ones unrestricted access to your emails? Would you want your loved ones looking at your search or browsing history? Would you show them a complete history of everything you've ever bought online? Every site you've ever visited? Your location in real time, at all times? Would you want them knowing what kind of porn you watch? Google knows all this and more, if you use their products.

i don't think there will ever be any problems with asking for KYC in cryptocurrency space. we all know and understand the centralized services are subjected to regulations.
the reputation is ruined when they start claiming to be decentralized (like decentralized exchanges that are centralized, eg. Binance DEX) or talk about privacy (like this case) and then their actions are the exact opposite of their claims.