The U.S are very strong in their 'fight' against privacy in the guise of fighting money laundering, but i believe some parts of Europe are also doing the same thing. The wave of attacks against crypto services is spreading and i agree that very soon, it would be almost everywhere, the government will want to know exactly what you do with your coins.
Governments around the world are the biggest scammers with money laundering and crazy taxation system.
I dont see any benefit to anyone, and nobody is going to be protected becasue they arrested some wallet developers.
Some time in future people are going to laugh when they hear and read why they put people in prison for
Scammers are still seeing many ways to scam successfully with their fiat. Terrorists still spend their fiat but they will be talking about cryptocurrencies if little of it is link to terrorism. Most laundered money are in banks and some are buried somewhere underground most especially by the political leaders. This life is just fucked. Fiat system itself is a scam, they still prefer to go against privacy when their non privacy way is not working.
I have a brother, he messaged me on Whatsapp recently but from how he was chatting, I knew he was not him. His account was compromised, not him but a scammer. The scammer is using it to contact people he (my brother) saved their contact. He asked me for money and he gave me a bank that you will think you will be able to trace. But if you trace it, it will be linked to an innocent person. I did not even know the bank or what it is. But I know there are many fake KYCs this days on the online banks that you can open directly on your device without going anywhere.
Their fiat system or monetary system is a failure against scam, money laundering, terrorism, banditry and other criminals activities.