On: EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable

[ekianjo]

> You can’t show up in a bank with a bucket load of $100 bills and open an anonymous bank account. Well you shouldn’t be able to with bitcoins either.

So we have to make a superior system inferior?

[bryanrasmussen → ekianjo]

well, we had to make the superior system of cash inferior - as just described.

[OtomotO → bryanrasmussen]

We didnt have to, some chose to.

I never voted for any of those clowns in power

[alkonaut → OtomotO]

There is currently no political (and therefore I assume public) will to go for privacy over transparency for large money transfers.

You can vote for someone who wants to reverse this, and it might change. Since this is pretty much an international system though (banks offering anonymous accounts will have difficulty interoperating with other actors), it’s likely not enough with political/public opinion in just one country.