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Better for whom? Because it's the Wikileaks, Snowdens, and Extinction Rebellions that get hurt by laws like these.

In terms of money laundering for the rich, that's all through 'fine art' and real estate.

Seriously, the number of people (maybe some aren't real people, who knows) that are applauding this, I am incredulous. Many of these people probably wouldn't pass up the opportunity to jump into every shit-on-america thread they stumble across to talk about how great privacy laws in Europe are.

Even if visa and the others have stopped doing transactions to Snowden et al., I don't think sending them bitcoin is illegal? It shouldn't matter whether their accounts are anonymous

>I don't think sending them bitcoin is illegal?

Well, according to the EU, not yet.

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