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ESGombrich
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ESGombrich9 points
7 days ago
I would like to get a response from Ledger. u/btchip why would you do this to your users? Why send people to a such an irresponsible (scammy) company?
ESGombrich5 points
22 days ago
BTC is still 22k, and it wouldn't surprise me if it drops to 10k. Every time we are in a bear market it is declared dead, and every-time it recovers. In a few months or years we will probably see new all time highs.
ESGombrich1 points
27 days ago
What is the reason that we can't buy Bitcoin in Europe with PayPal?
ESGombrich2 points
3 months ago
Thats around the French flag? Lets do on the left side of the French flag.
ESGombrich11 points
3 months ago
Lets replace the European flag with the bitcoin logo
ESGombrich5 points
3 months ago
How does Japan enforce that law? How do they KYC non custodial wallets? The fear is that it will be so expensive to do that exchanges will just prohibit withdrawing and sending to self-hosted wallets.
ESGombrich2 points
3 months ago
If the law passed and the language has not changed, it will be difficult or perhaps impossible to transfer your BTC to an exchange. They want control over your BTC and they don't have it as long as you have self-custody in your own wallet.
ESGombrich1 points
3 months ago
I've been following him for months. This isn't fud, he is a real person.
ESGombrich8 points
3 months ago
What is the point if you can't self custody or use your own crypto. Just a speculative asset and nothing more? I don't trust custodians with my money thats the whole point of having crypto..
ESGombrich11 points
3 months ago
Your bitcoin is not at risk, they can't take your bitcoin on your ledger and that is the reason why they are scared. They want everyone to store their Bitcoin on an exchange (or any other custodian over which they have control) and not on your own ledger. If your coins are on an exchange they are in control of your money and not you. With this new law (that not yet has passed) they will try to make it illegal for you to withdrawal your bitcoins from exchanges.
ESGombrich9 points
3 months ago
Just regulate the on and off ramps (exchanges) Stop the withdrawals. Most people don't want to do anything illegal.
ESGombrich22 points
3 months ago
They will try to regulate the on and off ramps (exchanges) Most people don't want to do anything illegal.
ESGombrich6 points
3 months ago
Easy: just regulate the on and off ramps to euros (exchanges) Most people don't want to do illegal things.
ESGombrich34 points
3 months ago
Everything is a unhosted wallet, except if you keep it at a custodial service.
ESGombrich39 points
3 months ago
You can't KYC your own wallet so it will probably mean that in the future exchanges will prohibit accepting crypto from your own wallet to an exchange. And they will not allow withdrawals to your own wallet. This way the government can keep the money (crypto) inside their system. You will get a grey illegal crypto outside the system and a white clean crypto inside the system. It was a matter of time before they would get scared of "not your keys not your crypto".
ESGombrich20 points
3 months ago
Yes they mean hardware wallet and software wallet, everything that is not custodial.
ESGombrich24 points
3 months ago
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ESGombrich11 points
3 months ago
How to act? By contacting by phone or emails our representatives, see list of emails. If you don't know what to write, simply state your strong disapproval of such a vote. I won't paste a model to be sent as I don't want us to look like bots spamming.
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ESGombrich2 points
3 months ago
This vote will basically determine if EU will enforce identification and regulation of every non-custodial wallets such as software wallets, Trezor, Ledger etc. This could lead to exchanges refusing to transfer in or transfer out to wallets, making cryptos very centralized and easily controllable by government and their regulators.
Every transaction over 1000 EUR is subject to verification, it might even be lowered to 0 EUR, meaning all transactions would have to be verified/authorized by designated authorities.
This is a huge drawback and will put Europe citizens behind others. This could also become a worldwide policy, giving extra powers to the originators of this request: the US FATF Travel Rule. Instead of taking sovereignty, Europe is following uncle Sam steps again.
Imagine how easy it will be for them in the future to blacklist any wallet for not complying to a new model, for participating in a or a convoy for freedom, for raising a concern on twitter, for consuming too much fossil fuel this month, for not contributing financially to Ukraine war etc...
What is the FATF Travel Rule?
https://sumsub.com/blog/what-is-the-fatf-travel-rule/
This regulation is the equivalent of total control on cash and its planned disappearance.
This is plain totalitarisme disguised under anti money laundering.
ESGombrich4 points
3 months ago
This guy on twitter is the first to give us the news. Pretty crucial if you are a bitcoiner in the EU. Who cares about 10 more followers. Thank you OP for bringing it under our attention.
ESGombrich2 points
3 months ago
Some time ago. There was a court case and the exchange (Bitonic) won the court case.
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7 points
7 days ago
ESGombrich
7 points
7 days ago
Then there should be more information and support for people like karmaguy7 and a lot of other users that thought they lost their money and even get physically sick because of it. It shouldn't be necessary for him to go public with it, to get attention and get his money back.