Their goal is to crush Bitcoin and bring it to their feet. The attack is both external and internal. And trust me they won't stop until their aim of regulating Bitcoin is achieved. By the way if these apps aren't available on the play store and app store for US citizens isn't it going to be available on the official websites of software?

I guess I am behind on the Chainanalysis news. Kindly reply this with the link so I can get properly informed on it. Thanks.

Most likely their reason, they see the growing activists that are fighting for the rights of people that have been using bitcoin and cryptocurrency and they don't know how to control it besides the limiting on the usage of bitcoin, trying to make the use of it as claustrophobic as it can be for the people so they can get discouraged from using it and eventually making bitcoin less and less valuable as the people that want to use it aren't or can't use it because of the limits imposed by the government, it's probably a high time that the people fight back because bitcoin's worth fighting for you know, if that were to happen in my country, I don't think that not speaking up is the right choice.

In short they want their citizen to use centralized exchange, they might allow non custodial wallet usage, but only for closed source wallet that created by it's exchange e.g. Coinbase, Bitget.

This year is really bad for privacy users (in United States) since they keep attack privacy tools and tightening their laws.

It's because they have questioning the US about the recent take-down of Samourai and for them, it is not clear,



https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1783878732865740940

So before they could be the next target, they just decided to shut it down for their US customers unless it's very clear where they LN wallet will fall, on what category from the United States.

The answer to the question is really simple: if you are not licensed by the US government, they don't want you to operate anything that can transmit money around, since crypto currency has been generally accepted as money, not like the old days when they saw it as something that wouldn't succeed.
 
The US government wants to be in control of whatever service their citizens are making use of, which can allow them to send or receive payment. Any service that can be proven to a money transmitter is either getting a corporation license or the three-letter US agency will come right after you.
 
Now I think they have succeeded in getting most of the centralised exchanges under their control and watch, so what's left next is self-custodial services. Don't be surprised when they go after Metamask and other web wallets that US citizens are allowed to make use of, as the SEC has already declared Metamask to be an unlicensed broker-dealer, so the next step is to get it shut down whenever they want.
 
The SEC, FBI, and other government agencies that are responsible for the regulation and attack on crypto firms are all doing this because they feel crypto currency and other services that offer privacy are obstructing them from having full monetarily control over their citizens finances. Like I said before, these people just make the rules to suit them and come after anything that poses a threat to them.

I won't be surprised if US will be taking down or bringing regulations for every crypto address should be connected with the KYC because they're not interested in people having privacy and the reason they say is money laundering but they're afraid of tax revenue cuts or decentralised monetary system started taking the path they didn't expect at all.

This isn't their first attempt on Bitcoin network to see that every other elements attached to it have been crippled before the main launch of attack on the bitcoin itself, since they cannot achieve regulating the network, all they feels like doing are these, whereas I expect them to be the highest users to keep encouraging others to continue with the use and adoption of bitcoin globally, we shouldn't care much about them or the raging attacks they are mounting because everything will soon fade as it doesn't work effectively on a decentralized network.

I'll put them somewhere in the middle. They claim to be non custodial on their website and have done so for many years, but to function as a lightening network wallet they do have some levels of custody.

United States has been very aggressive against crypto platforms and that's the reason why most crypto platforms want to exit the US market so they could be safe from the sanctions that they might get if they continue providing their services to US citizens.

That means the only platforms will remain working in US who completely agree with the rules of the United States. The ones who doesn't follow the rules and regulations of the US will either get seized or they'll get penalties.

I just checked the wallet just now because of the argument and I discovered that Phoenix wallet is purely non custodial wallet which also open source. And why I know that it is a non custodial wallet because after downloading the wallet app. I clicked "create new wallet" and as I clicked, straight to the interface of the wallet with the option of receive and send and I clicked on the receive the the public key was shown to me.

And on the home page of the wallet I clicked on setting, then clicked again on recover seed. And the seed phrase display on the screen. Therefore there is no argument here again it is purely a non custodial wallet.
And look at the app on my phone desktop.