Binance to delist these 12 privacy coins in these eu countries from June 26

[Argoo]

Of course, anonymity and confidentiality in cryptocurrency takes a significant place. However, even from the very beginning of its existence, these components were not the main ones for the cryptocurrency. While the cryptocurrency did not have much influence in the global financial system, states were in no hurry to pay attention to it and regulate its circulation. However, it would be foolish to assume that such an attitude of states will continue in the future. Their current focus on cryptocurrencies, and privacy coins in particular, is quite predictable. And this can only be called the beginning. States will seek to get rid of anonymity in cryptocurrency. And the result of this pressure will depend on how actively cryptocurrency supporters defend their positions.

[asriloni]

To be honest if so many countries are preparing some new regulations for crypto currency. It's the best way that can be done by binance. In my view if privacy coin doesn't have demand anymore. Monero may be the only one that may exist as major privacy coin.
The regulations to prevents money laundering become even tightening in some EU countries. Binance was not doing something wrong. We will need only a single good privacy coin.

It's pointless to have a lot of privacy coins. Some privacy coins like verge has very bad reputation right now. that's why binance wants to replace it with a good project.

I think that another exchange site will be slowly but surely taking the same decision as binance. People can still at least use privacy coins outside from EU countries.
EU regulators putting its focus into the money laundering case that mostly happened in crypto.

[Blitzboy]

That's a sledgehammer of an update, no doubt. Unlisting these cryptic coins in the outlined EU territories could cause serious ripples in the global blockchain lake. Especially since Binance stands tall as a crypto titan. These coins, with their stealthy attributes - however contentious - echo the original crypto mantra - decentralized and cloak-and-dagger.

With a regulatory lens, this chess move by Binance hardly gives me the heebie-jeebies. From my economics foxhole, I chalk this up as a must-have shield to ward off the lurking shadows of illegal capers. Countries are ramping up the call for crypto market oversight to ax fraud, clean up money-laundering, and halt financial hooliganism.

But, this pivot also unfurls weighty dilemmas about the future course of privacy-centric cryptocurrencies. It's a screaming signal that the powers-that-be are making a play to umpire a field built on decentralization. This may stub out a few bad seeds, yet it's a gut punch to the crypto core tenets.

[Ultegra134]

As expected. Its primary goal is privacy and we all knew centralized follow procedures and protocols hence with the government right? Its not like they wanted to delist it, and just following the regulations on countries imposed it.

Maybe a privacy exchange could be made somewhere where those interested to trade without any hindrance on government rules. But I doubt traders would love to trade there, since Binance has the volume. If you want to make money then go to cex and trade with outstanding volume. If you protect your privacy that much, then do peer to peer and keep safe your info for that. I guess we cant satisfy both of everyone wants and prioritize.

As long as governement stand the idea of decentralization would always be bother by the likes of them.

It stinks that governments are pursuing ways to block any access to private options; it might still not affect the majority of us, but more countries will probably soon follow. While delisting them from Binance doesn't actually block them from being traded, it's still a limiting factor. Keep in mind that there are quite a few decentralized options, such as the Bisq exchange, and also a huge variety of networks (BSC, Fantom, Aurora, Polygon, and plenty of others). Thus, trading certainly won't stop; it's theoretically and practically impossible to block decentralized services. The only issue they're causing is making things a little more difficult and certainly reducing the total trading volume, which is likely to be only temporary since everyone will simply switch to other means that I already mentioned earlier, and ultimately, the ramifications will be minimal.

[timoshani]

Strangely, coins such as Decred, Dash, ZEC are going to divide. The reason is not entirely clear. Is it related to the legislative framework? DASH coin with history and appeared in the days of DOGE and Litecoin. Therefore, as if it should trade without problems on different platforms, including Binance

[hugeblack]

Strangely, coins such as Decred, Dash, ZEC are going to divide. The reason is not entirely clear. Is it related to the legislative framework? DASH coin with history and appeared in the days of DOGE and Litecoin. Therefore, as if it should trade without problems on different platforms, including Binance

DASH has always defined itself as a privacy currency and it is a cheaper alternative to Monero, especially since it only needs two confirmations. I do not know if there has been any development in the project, but if DASH stop supporting privacy just because decisions were issued by countries or some CEXs stop trading, then this currency is not worth a 1 dollar investment.
Your question would be more logical if the currency had two uses, one to enhance privacy and the other as a p2p payment like LiteCoin.

[rat4]

It's very wrong mate. The government can shutdown the dex as well. Did you remember what happened with etherdelta? if you remember that and you might have seen the power that owned by government. It's very easy to shutdown it. Even the government can seize the domain if they want.

I'm not aware of the situation, because I don't follow the Ethereum world. What I can find on the internet is that etherdelta provided UI as a website and used a centralized server in its operations. Of course it was an easy target. A decent DEX is a P2P network so is as resilient as cryptocurrencies it trades.

[Yaunfitda]

While this is a bad news for crypto, it pushes users towards DEXes, where governments have less control.

It's very wrong mate. The government can shutdown the dex as well. Did you remember what happened with etherdelta? if you remember that and you might have seen the power that owned by government. It's very easy to shutdown it. Even the government can seize the domain if they want.

There was no other solution than being compliance with the regulation. Binance just wanna do that.

Yes, even if we say that DEX is out of the hands from the government, we are still not going to relax. There might be a time that government will go after them too specially if they grown so big that users are taking advantage of it.

Just sad to see how crypto turns out in the last 5 years as privacy coins are taking a hit. Some of us could have been using for it's purpose, not necessarily to hide from tax or what the government thinks we are into this privacy coins. We just want to remain private and anonymous, that's it.

[yazher]

Since privacy coins are in disagreement with laws in various nations and exchanges need to go by laws in order to maintain their legal status, privacy coins will have a difficult time growing.
This ban may lead to the collapse of privacy coins if it remains in place.

They need to create their own market without relying on any exchanges but coming together as a team of private coins is hard for them since everyone wanted to gather as many investors as they need and they don't want to give their competition some free advertisement unless they will no longer have a choice. We really need these private coins because they are one of the real coins that are offering real privacy and are also secured but we can't do anything about it since they are red-flagged by most governments all around the world which is hard for them to make new adjustment for their developments and updates to give their investors multiple reasons why their coins are worthy of investment.

[abel1337]

While this is a bad news for crypto, it pushes users towards DEXes, where governments have less control.

It's very wrong mate. The government can shutdown the dex as well. Did you remember what happened with etherdelta? if you remember that and you might have seen the power that owned by government. It's very easy to shutdown it. Even the government can seize the domain if they want.

There was no other solution than being compliance with the regulation. Binance just wanna do that.

Yes, even if we say that DEX is out of the hands from the government, we are still not going to relax. There might be a time that government will go after them too specially if they grown so big that users are taking advantage of it.

Just sad to see how crypto turns out in the last 5 years as privacy coins are taking a hit. Some of us could have been using for it's purpose, not necessarily to hide from tax or what the government thinks we are into this privacy coins. We just want to remain private and anonymous, that's it.

Governments are showing their power. The anonymity characteristic of crypto is now slowly deteriorating. I won't be shocked if DEX will be their next target. Mixing services took a hit recently and now privacy tokens? Future tokens might avoid being privacy because of what happened recently. It's like we are slowly being controlled by government because on what news we are having today. What if DEX are now on hit, are we forced to use CEX because we have no choice? I hope there will be a country that opposed to this or embraced the privacy part of cryptocurrency.

[Desscount]

Strangely, coins such as Decred, Dash, ZEC are going to divide. The reason is not entirely clear. Is it related to the legislative framework? DASH coin with history and appeared in the days of DOGE and Litecoin. Therefore, as if it should trade without problems on different platforms, including Binance

DASH and ZEC are indeed private altcoins and in the EU they are very prone to crime,
especially since the government there is also very strict in terms of legislation,
because privacy coins can make government noise even worse with coin privacy. Crime can be done very easily,
therefore all coins privacy is forbidden there, and maybe it will be done around the world too.

[OmegaStarScream]

An update about this[1]. It looks like Binance is reversing its decision to delist privacy coins. It's unclear from the article whether all the projects are going to remain, or only a few of them but a few projects already stated that they're not getting delisted.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-relists-privacy-coins-in-europe

[Bitcoin_Arena]

An update about this[1]. It looks like Binance is reversing its decision to delist privacy coins. It's unclear from the article whether all the projects are going to remain, or only a few of them but a few projects already stated that they're not getting delisted.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-relists-privacy-coins-in-europe

Unless if I did get this wrongly but I don't see the point why they had decided to ban the privacy coins in the EU if they were already pulling out their service in a number of EU members. It wasn't making any sense at all.

If they were no longer operating in the jurisdiction, then there was totally no purpose of the ban.