Has the internet of today and its many applications (such as Facebook) been turned into a sort of panopticon and could the same fate await bitcoin users?
Well it is possible, almost anything is these days. Question is do we see this slowly happening today? KYC and other verification methods are progressing, that's a fact but at the same time other, completely anonymous ways for bitcoin utilisation are on going.
Stationary currency exchangers, cantors, counting houses etc are booming among crypto enthusiasts and I just can't see how all those people will move from anon to public. There must be a border, a dam for all this and I think we are very close to it, mental barrier for totalitarian actions of the state must be risen, just the fact that I'm writing about it, says that it already had happened.
There is also a case of de-anonymisation, does non anonymous bitcoin is still bitcoin? That would require some serious changes to the code, a fork, thus creation of yet another altcoin. The answer for my initial question seems to be a simple 'no but still we, as a whole, should be against forced methods of KYC. Right to remain unknown to the "system" must be addressed as human rights.
