Chainalysis in Action: Justice Dept Demands Forfeiture of 280 Crypto Addresses

the state is aware and all of their actions have to be precise and large all at once because the antifragile nature of these networks makes them harden after every enforcement event.

right now, more private blockchain technologies are outliers that experience a threat of shunning and being crippled.

but existing networks are going to upgrade en masse, and will have strength in numbers against all existing exchanges and public policy discussions

basically what it comes down to is the observation that the government never had any rationale to surveil people's money and it found itself in the convenient position to do so over the last 30-40 years, leveraging financial institutions where it at least has to issue a subpoena to obtain information. Over the last 5 years it found itself in a more convenient position of embracing transparent public blockchains to surveil even more without needing a subpoena, alongside the capability of also issuing subpoenas to crypto financial institutions.

this power is simply going to be removed from the state, reverting its surveillance capabilities at or below what it can do with cash, with individuals themselves needing to be subpoena'd if it can identify them.

the governments will just have to find another way to curb whatever behavior it is actually trying to prevent.

(disclaimer, this isn't intended to be "edgy" and I would say any perturbation only highlights my point of how used to the idea of an omnipotent state you've become, but its not a prerequisite)

technologies to watch are:

Aztec implementing Zk-Zk Rollups. This will allow all existing erc20 tokens to inherit privacy on a highly scalable private system, unburdened by layer1 blockchain throughput limitations. It allows new erc20 tokens to be issued privately where no origin is know in a highly scalable private system.

RenVM implementing EdDSA, this allows isolated private cryptocurrencies like Monero to be swappable and transposed to an erc20 token. This removes liquidity limitations of cryptocurrencies like Monero, and removes the problem of exchanges removing liquidity routes of Monero. Aztec + RenVM would simply add a whole pipeline. Also provides exits for less private assets to swap out back to the Monero blockchain, which is currently not surveillable.

Taproot and Schnor on UXTO blockchains like Bitcoin. Adds levels of confidentiality.

There are quite a few other technologies as well.

Monero ftw.

Do people expect privacy from the bitcoin network?