That does not surprise me in the least. Most crypto e-magazines are not just aggregators of articles, papers and news releases but also make money running pay-to-post stories as well. In this case the 'story' being no doubt being provided by the books publisher.

The EU are quite hostile towards crypto, total self serving, ignorant bureaucrats. They hate the thought of not being able to control how much money you have & what you spend it on. If you have any no KYC crypto then treasure it, keep it safe, it could be very valuable in time.

I think that this is a welcome development because going through the news the regulators are only concerned about making sure the crypto related fraud is eliminated because alot of person's has used crypto currency to commit crimes bringing a bad name to crypto as a whole so this move is a welcome development to me, most of these memecoins that are been launched into the market should be regulated as most of them has not shown any reasonable growth rate ever since coming into the market.


So any anonymous crypto currency that has no base should be band and removed from the market as most altcoins has been used by scammers for the wrong reasons

Money laundering, phishing, ransomware, scammers, Ponzi Schemes, cryptotheft will all continue to exist in 2027 but these imbeciles think that banning privacy coins and severely restricting Bitcoin will magically end all these things.

It's like they live on a different universe from the rest of us.

Since the EU have seen that it's impossible to control the activities of members of the crypto community, they've been adopting policies that neutralizes privacy which is absolutely against one of the core objectives of Satoshi Nakamoto in creating Bitcoin. Below is an excerpt from the Satoshi's White Paper that clearly shows that this policy of the EU does contravene the vision of privacy in Bitcoin.

 “The traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous.”

So in effect of this policy of banning anonymous crypto usage, the EU is  simply moving toward total traceability, undermining the original spirit of Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting financial system.

Personally, I think they just want to discourage the use of Bitcoin Bitcoin and cryptocurrency activities in the West because I know the majority of Bitcoiners and members of the crypto community will not accept to work with these crypto limiting policies.

What’s more concerning is how fast this is being normalized. On paper, transparency, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, right? Reflects a regulatory victory. But zoom out and you’ll see the infrastructure being built here isn’t just about stopping “bad actors”. It is about constantly monitoring everyone, regardless of guilt. Every crypto exchange will become a surveillance node. Anonymous accounts will be gone by 2027, privacy coins delisted, and any non-compliant transaction will probably be detected, frozen, or outright prohibited. However, fraud has not decreased. Billion in illegal crypto flow while regulation ramping up. What then is exactly being targeted here? The means of fraud, or the freedom to transact without permission?

Here it stops being about Monero or Zcash and begins to be about the EUDI Wallet, CBDCs, and programmable money. By the time the EU Digital Identity Framework comes entirely into effect (2026), they will see your digital health ID, travel records, tax profile, not only your crypto.

Indeed, privacy coins will be pushed under ground. That’s already happening. Monero volume is up, but liquidity is thinning. Regular people will definitely lose their access to financial discretion, while criminals will always adapt (they always do - mixers, ZK tech, secret layer-2s).

Well, what did you expect? That Big Brother would simply allow using cryptocurrencies? So to speak, outside the standard financial system, eluding his gaze? The more capitalization this industry gets, the more attention it will attract from the regulator. Of course, they want to know all the information about transactions, wallet contents, and will gladly even look into your @ss (what if you hid a couple of tokens there). These are just the first stages. Also, at one of the stages, they will force you to pay taxes on your cryptocurrencies. In the future, crypto users will be severely punished for not complying with the regulator's requirements.

Lol. very non-sense, they're targetting crypto but tbh it won't decrease the crime rates in their countries even if they ban crypto or they require people to link their accounts to themselves. Crypto isn't the major reason why people still get do their crimes, people still prefer doing cold cash in transactions for illegal things. Well, I think if government is finding ways, crypto will also find their ways too and that's why P2P do exists, no one can stop crypto.

The government just want to have full control in everything, of course they want to control the cash flow and don't want some normal people have freedom and exit to the system they made to tax people and use that tax money for personal interest.

I know, right? They're doing this in the guise of preventing money laundering, terrorism financing, and tax evasion, but it's all an attempt to lure people away from crypto. The EU doesn't want people to gain true financial freedom and privacy. Otherwise, they will lose control/power for good. This is typical of the "deep state".

Eventually, the EU will launch a CBDC of its own (CBDC) and declare all cryptocurrencies "illegal" (including Bitcoin). Fiat on/off ramps for crypto will be either shut down for good or heavily-scrutinized by the government (by enforcing KYC/AML rules). Monero users don't need to worry about this, as long as they follow the necessary security measures (OPSEC). Don't let the government know or suspect you're holding a privacy coin, and there should be nothing to worry about. Who can stop truly-decentralized privacy coins and anonymization techniques, anyways?

The solution to this, as always, is to go back to Bitcoin standard and use Bitcoin as it's supposed to be used, which is, p2p non-custodial and possibly decentralized transactions.

By the way, I think that would be implemented on centralized platforms because anonymous accounts can't be banned on decentralized system that's based on Bitcoin standard. Besides, it's basically unsafe to reveal people real identities and link the identities to their crypto assets on a system that's as transparent as Bitcoin.  
This will likely be a typical kyc verifications mainly on centralized custodial wallets, exchanges and platforms . The centralized non-custodial exchanges/wallets would do well if they become decentralized and implement a decentralized kyc and/or auto-checks on transactions/coins to ensure they are clean or in compliance with reasonable standards before getting to recipient addresses. The normal decentralized platforms could also implement this.

In regards to privacy tokens, I think it would be better to prevent them from being used for evil or criminal activities rather than an outright ban. They could be very useful to innocent users in times of tyranny.