https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/17/business/coincheck-stop-handling-three-virtual-currencies-give-owners-anonymity/#.Wq1DOBPwbWYcoincheck is of course a bunch of assholes for leaving themselves wide open to a hack and they're gonna go all out to get regulators off their back in future, but i was wondering whether more exchanges might give up the trading of coins like monero and zcash with anonymity baked in to preempt regulators.
i kind of get the feeling that most authorities are so far behind in knowing the ins and outs of crypto that they haven't turned their attentions to this area yet. when they do they're gonna have kittens.
by that point atomic swaps with monero at least will be in place so exchanges won't be all that necessary but can you imagine them explicitly coming down on privacy coins or will they not bother to make the separation?
