your exchange reports every trade to the IRS now.
not just withdrawals.
every trade. every swap. every move.
you thought you were using crypto.
you were filing a report.
criminals stopped hacking exchanges.
started showing up at people's homes instead.
$101 million taken that way in 4 months.
they bought the addresses from data brokers.
your exchange leak was on sale.
coinbase support agent got offered $250,000
to hand over customer records.
someone took it.
70,000 people's names, addresses
and government IDs went with him.
they banned XMR from every exchange they control.
built analytics companies to track it.
called it a criminal coin.
still can't trace a single transaction.
cash in 2019 was 68% of all payments in europe.
today it's 40%.
the EU is now building a digital euro
to track the rest.
anonymous money is nearly gone
and nobody noticed.
Privacy is under attack. This is the 6th time our server has been targeted this month. We are currently investigating the issue. Please give us some time to bring the server back online. Thank you for your understanding.
crypto in 2015 - send to anyone, anywhere, no questions.
crypto in 2026 - flagged, reviewed, reported.
somewhere in between we forgot what we were building.
the chain that was supposed to replace banks just admitted it needs privacy.
Ethereum announced privacy features this week.
Monero has been doing this since 2014.
took them a while.
crypto holders in France are getting kidnapped.
41 attacks this year. one every two and a half days.
all traced back to leaked KYC data.
your home address is on an exchange server right now.
