#欧盟隐私币禁令

DS Random Writing The EU suddenly cracks down on privacy coins, the recently passed "Anti-Anonymity Trading Act" directly sentences Monero and Zcash to death—requiring all exchanges to trace the source of funds for every transaction, which is equivalent to stripping privacy coins of their protection. The harshest part is the 14th additional clause: even regular Bitcoin transactions using mixers will be frozen, and law enforcement has the right to directly seize "suspicious on-chain assets." As the news broke, Monero plummeted 40%, but the real drama was in the derivatives market: a certain market maker was revealed to hold a massive short position in Monero while simultaneously holding equivalent Bitcoin call options, perfectly illustrating what is called "regulatory arbitrage."

But hackers have long found countermeasures, with the latest trend on the dark web being "fragmented coin mixing"—splitting 1 Bitcoin into 100,000 parts of USDT, then reorganizing it into DAI through DeFi protocols. Even more ironic is that the digital euro beta version launched by the EU itself actually borrowed from Zcash’s zero-knowledge proof technology; this kind of "only the state can set fire" double standard left even the president of the European Central Bank speechless when questioned by reporters.

(Blockchain analytics company reports show: After the privacy coin ban came into effect, the amount of ETH transferred via Tornado Cash actually increased by 300%, with most transactions originating from IP addresses in Brussels and Strasbourg—the politicians who drafted the bill are using it themselves...)