It is becoming clear every day that the government through institutional investors wants to control the Bitcoin space. These investors are making Bitcoin more popular and accepted but it is gradually moving the sector towards centralisation. Some mining pools are even asking for KYC which is a clear indication that they want to kill privacy. I am afraid that most of us here don't have the financial or political power to stop these moves but at least we could do our little bit by sticking with decentralised platforms. We have to enjoy privacy as long as it lasts by avoiding all platforms that ask for KYC.   

there have been conspiracy theories about it. and although it seems quite possible such as BlackRock buying the shares of the BTC mining farms, it looks like there is no reaction to it since we are trusting so much of the network that they will not be able to control it since there are other countries who are also mining BTC.

but it must be kept in mind that all governments whether communist governments or not, they want to control the people which means they all can communicate like how they do these days. China and US and Russia communicate with each other and look at the bank records and blockchain data to see who's naughty or nice.

But that's literally not how Bitcoin works. I mean sure a govt could technically make it illegal to own bitcoin yourself, though that would be preposterous. But that isn't how bitcoin works so it would be unenforceable. You'd just have people migrating away from centralized crypto exchanges to decentralized exchanges or other ways to buy bitcoin.

And identity verification to create an address?? what?? You can literally create an address on your own. You don't need anyone's approval or verification to create an address, so again, unenforceable.

Let's not worry about loony conspiracy theories alright. Let's focus on making Bitcoin better and growing adoption rather than talking about dystopian conspiracy theories. Just sayin. Don't worry so much dude hahaha. Enjoy the fact that you happen to be living during Bitcoin's birth and growth.

I don't think this is possible as we all know they don't really know who are those people holding Bitcoins.

And this won't happen either as enthusiasts prefer to have privacy on every holdings. People will always find a way to stay decentralized as possible.

Of course I will choose the one that keep it as is. No centralization no problem, we want privacy, our keys our coins.

Then hodl and let them realize that what they did does not makes any sense.

I must say reading this sent some cold to my belly because of the possibility that this is happening already, like there is already a siege ongoing against bitcoins to reduce its uniqueness, and we know nothing about it.

how can we support privacy where it exists? I will like to know how exactly so I know my exact actions.

now for step one
what if i told you a decade ago SEC declared bitcoin as currency to start adding in legislation and regulation for businesses that use bitcoin to control the gateways in and out of bitcoin.

now for step 2
what if businesses cant make middlemen fees from bitcoin transactions so they sponsor devs to make bitcoin annoying to use where the options are CEX accounts to hoard, or locking coins into hubs to then use balance on subnetworks so middlemen can make fees on each payment

step 3
what if i told you the SEC started by getting CEX's to start reporting tax and gathering KYC.. and then...
.. now allowing ETF's that are if using a pension funds for tax free trading.. meaning holding actual coin will charge you tax per CEX trade but trading via pension fund ETF has no cap gains tax per trade..

step 4
what if i told you that using mixers actually get you watched more nd everyone conned into promoting mixers are actually making bitcoin get flagged as bad, thus the only "clean" coin is that held by regulated custodians. so each time you see mixer promoters shout "everyone should use a mixer" they are actually saying lets make bitcoin more annoying and troublesome for users

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end result is
people avoid CEX to avoid KYC and IRS and if using mixers, definitely avoid CEX's.. so knowing cash-out options dry out and onchain is annoying. they end up locking value into subnetworks and then buy silly avatars of marvel characters or colourful hats and other silly things to spend down their coin giving middle men fees until their balance is gone. all due to the annoyances and fears pushed on them which they then trap themselves in by using the promoted services that pretend to free them but just end up giving them more traps to fall into

in the end users walk away with no balance left leaving the businesses hoarding the coin

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its the old game
"holding real metal gold is cumbersome, expensive and security risk of theft.. invest in gold shares, they are easy, come with tax incentives, and dont require paperwork jsut to buy or sell $1k"

The question I have is that, can sec bridge any anonymity or uniqueness of Bitcoin put down by Satoshi?

If no, then I thin just as you said, we should take our privacy serious by avoiding exchanges since SEC and other government agencies are trying to set some regulations to CEX in order to be controlling our Bitcoins we left in their custody.

It is time we stand against all the effort government is making to control the only financial freedom we have. Bitcoin is the only financial freedom we have, and we must stand against corruption.

This is mainly a problem in the US and I see that bitcoin users who live there treat their legislation like it should concern the whole world, but it doesn't.
I live in the EU where we still have bitcoin tax havens. Even in countries that want people to pay tax on their bitcoin it's always a tax on profits, not on holding bitcoin. We don't have to report holding bitcoin and we don't have to report selling it for other cryptocurrencies.

The bottom line here is that this legislation is mainly the problem of the US where brainwashed democrats like Senator Warren are trying to turn people's lives into a red tape hell.
The silver lining is that from dozens of anti-crypto projects she submitted not a single one was approved by the Congress. I don't think that this one will, and if it does the States will be able to change their local laws to ignore it, like they did with the mining ban.

There is a possibility for this, but of course, we bitcoin holders and investors will let it happen. No, of course, even though the government is still finding its way to crypto currency, they still can't take control of it. That's why, even today, they still haven't approved of bitcoin or crypto currency because they know they can't get anything from it.

I would rather bitcoin be still anonymous, wherein you are free to hide your identity in the network where your only identity is your wallet address. We need privacy, and Bitcoin is that one that gives that privacy. That's why even though the government is still in pursuit of Bitcoin, I'm against the fact that they want to control it, because if this happens, we will not have an asset that we can freely earn from. I don't want bitcoin to lose its value just because others want to make it public and controlled by anyone.

Even though I don't like it, I suspect that in the future when Bitcoin is legal to use everywhere it will happen that we need to do KYC and taxes everywhere, I am very sure of that because taxes are a source of state income and they will not release taxes from profitable commodities like Bitcoin .

This sounds very bad because as you said, peer to peer will lose its soul and it is no different from fiat because our identity can be tracked easily through kyc, one of the best things we can do is just store bitcoins in our own wallets. Currently, what we all feared has almost happened, where most exchanges, gambling sites and other platforms have already requested KYC, and countries require it, if exchanges do not want to comply then one day their business could be closed.

But on the other hand, I believe there are always parties who disagree and can be a way to hide our identity, such as mixers, darkweb, and/or P2P exchanges. maybe

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In the end we can only wait, wait for the future to come and hope that what we fear does not happen but I lack confidence