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[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

OP, your post is a mess.

  1. It's not "total monetary surveillance," it's limited to cryptocurrency and high (>$11,000) cash payments.
  2. You shouldn't encourage people to contact the EU before showing them what's actually happening
  3. Your Snort post doesn't work on my browser and it's a pretty bad social network anyway.

For people who are looking for actual info:

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-seeks-cash-payment-limit-tougher-money-laundering-rules/a-68024075

https://finbold.com/anonymous-crypto-wallets-now-illegal-in-the-eu/

Or the source OP was using:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-crypto-payments-results-in-financial-paternalism/

(ETA better info and links)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

why would someone limit me how I can spend my earned and 40% already taxed (taken) money? I gave my life time to earn it, they take half of it and still forbidding me to use it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hiding money in anonymous crypto is a way to avoid paying taxes or launder money.

Trump made crypto trading cards so Russia and Saudi Arabia could contribute to him anonymously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

So if that is a problem, focus and investigate, why I have to do anything with that? And that is US, this is EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago