fast? come on! Bitcoin is fast?   

very good point. 

It's not about ending something, it's about regulation. Nobody is against Bitcoin itself. They are against unregulated exchangers.  Also, it's about a FAIR competition.

If "you" would own a company who is a financial electronic money institutions with a real license, you have a lot of staff, you have to pay a lot of money to cover their salaries, taxes, costs for maintaining the financial license, rent, accounting, auditors and so on...wound't you mind that a company like BTC-e, Bitstamp is doing financial transactions (exactly like your company) and they put all the money they earn in their pocket without paying taxes, without having any rules, without complying with anything?

A small financial licensed company can have expenses of + 30,000 Euro per month. So, each month, firstly, you have to cover the expenses and then to think about you.
You = a person with bills, with a family..with a real life...so you need money as well. Wouldn't you be pissed off because an unfair competitor? YOU WOULD, for sure!

It's VERY hard to make +30.000 Euro monthly from the fees you get from exchanges. Don't look to Coinbase which is sustained by their investors. Coinbase will be bankrupted without them. That company cannot sustain itself by making profit from the fees it gets from exchanges.
 

There is already a law for electronic money institutions which apply to all the exchangers from EU but they don't respect it. In short, they are out of law.

The EU will enforce this law properly and done. Each exchanger from European Union MUST have a financial license because they are dealing with money. What the exchangers are doing(that KYC or AML) is nothing. You are giving your personal details to some companies you know nothing about and which are not supervised by anybody.

Each financial license company have strict rules(according to law) regarding to where they store your information, who can access this information( from their staff ), etc.
Do you think BTC-e or Bitstamp has these rules?  NO!

A financial licensed company has the same rules as a bank. They must comply with a lot of things. Can someone tell me where is the BTC-e office?

 A real financial company must have a real office, external auditor, accounting, compliance officer and so on. BTC will remain as a tinny shit as long the exchangers will not be financial licensed.

please try to search more about that. "Bitcoin manipulated price" MTgox price manipulated. OKcoin fake volumes... and so on

what whales? )

the "whales" are the exchangers and their investors who control the whole BTC market. The exchangers are running bots and they can rise or drop the BTC price how they want. MT Gox did the same and there proofs that others do the same.

the clients will get ZERO    

Their merchants accounts will be closed soon due to the frauds. The merchants are interested to make due diligence otherwise they may face chargebacks and they will be bankrupted.
  If a merchant has over 7% frauds, their account is closed. It's most likely to happen in this business where 90% is black market(scams).

Any exchanger must be financial licensed according to the EU laws.
Bitstamp may ask any paper they want but it's outlaw because they are not licensed.  It's like you open a bank without license. You can open a website, you can say that you are bank and asking for documents and shits but it doesn't mean you are regulated. You are just an outlaw bank and nothing more; same with Bitstamp, BTC-e and others. They are unlicensed financial companies.

Wallets must be licensed too because they store/transmit (value) money

tell that to others and to "investors".... sit back and wait for decades

Stop being ignorant and living in a hipster dream

P2P + Open Source + Decentralization = Unregulatable = USELESS without exchangers. The exchangers must have financial license because there are laws regarding to that. Period!

Mainstream + financial LAWs = Financial license = REGULATION   See Coinbase, Itbit, and Circle who are already licensed? Why do they spend a lot of money for that? Do you think they are stupids? They know very well that without license, they cannot go mainstream and the police can close their business anytime.

world civilizations is based on laws. that's why you are where you are now, that's why you have internet, electricity and so on...because there are laws(good or bad).

you are free to live like an Amish if you want to be "independent" and "unregulated"

regulation = end of Bitcoin.
BTC was not created to have regulated exchangers.  BTC market is 90% black market and the people who are using it, are not interested in a regulated e-currency which brings STRONG AML, KYC and so on.It's like they will use their own bank accounts.

The black market will create or move to other e-currency like they did it in the past. I.e: E-gold or LibertyReserve.

mainstream=regulation. there is NO other way.

What exchangers are regulated? Around of 4 worldwide. Coinbase, Gemini, Itbit and Circle(all from USA).

Even the so called biggest exchanges like BTC China, Okcoin, Bitstamp(this one is from Europe), BTC-e are NOT regulated.  Yes, they are running illegal companies because there are already laws who regulate their activity.

They are posing that they are corporations but they cannot cover "only" 1 mil USD to get a financial license

Of course, they cannot afford and they don't want that. Who will use them after that? The BTC industry is 90% based on black market(ponzi, fake forex and other scams) who doesn't want to be identified easily.
Once an exchanger is regulated, it must identity all its clients very carefully, to trace the funds and to be sure that they are clean.You need a lot of staff and resources to do that.

Would you risk your money by sending them to a nigerian , russian, indonesian ? I guess not. Well, many of the BTC users wanted that BTC to be "adopted". Adoption means regulation. Regulation = AML, KYC and many others and also, it means that the exchangers MUST be licensed otherwise they will be closed.

Bitcoin won't be regulated but they will restrict the exchangers from Europe. The exchangers are already outlaw because they don't have a financial license for their activity. I think it will be simple for EU authorities to shut down some exchangers like Bitstamp, BTC-e. None of them have a financial license yet.

nobody is blaiming X e-currency. the new restrictions will apply to all e-currencies.

it's something artificially. It's a fake market. You cannot keep a market alive in a such way. I am not talking about nodes but about fake transactions.
Be sure that BTC China has developed xx nodes NOT because he cares about you. They did it because they care about their business.

China GOV prohibited financial companies like banks(2 years ago) to deal with BTC exchangers.  So, all the BTC exchangers from China are outlaw.