Also, multiplying prime numbers is now illegal.
edit: Downvotes are funny because we are almost certainly going to see laws passed in the next few years that are functionally equivalent to the rules stated above.
what I wrote above is in a totally different ballpark - and we should expect to see government laws that pop up that do in fact attempt to regulate digit memorization or multiplication.
That example is admittedly weak, but do you see where I'm going with that?
What I am saying is that governments who are passing laws not to regulate transactions, but to prevent the use of cryptocurrencies in general, will fail due to a first principles analysis of what they'll be trying to do.
Your comment is not on-topic.
I tend to think the government will find its attempts to rein in crypto will just feed into the anti-fragility of the whole thing, and the result will be increasingly nonsensical attempts to stomp it out up until capitulation.
And yes, this leads to a prediction that some very technologically illiterate legislators will probably draft rules that are semantically equivalent to what I wrote.
but they don't, in the same way they don't understand cookies, databases or stock exchanges
none of this stops them legislating though...
https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice?elqTra...