Make no mistake, crypto or not, the law still applies and you aren't going to "win" against a nation state that has a monopoly on force and legal enforcement.
Your actions on the ledger are mostly permanent, and one opsec mistake and you're screwed.
Your actions on the ledger are mostly permanent, and one opsec mistake and you're screwed.
This simply means that the government will double down on making life for crypto holders more and more difficult, like KYC on non-hosted wallets
Which is precisely what's motivating the ongoing rapid development of various privacy preservation strategies (Monero, Zcash, Wasabi Wallet, ...).