Shoot it out of the air 😁 No...it's a long, drawn out process here in the UK, starting next year with the social media ban which doesn't affect me because I only #nostr and I'm approx 348 years old anyway. As for the rest of it; it's a precursor to a CBDC and judging by the way things are going on the cyber security front I'm not sure we'll even get there before AI does. And then? Who knows?

I can see myself living in two lanes, the private one and the kyc one. I will do what I can to make the private lane the dominant one by far, and the kyc lane a bare shell, only used where absolutely necessary to get through airports, etc. I will carry a dumb phone in kyc land, and I will be a dumb, cantankerous old codger when accosted by government agents.

Decentralized life is anon?

Like in the Ender’s Game books where his brother and sister demogouged online as the opposite of each of their political views and manipulated the world political atmosphere.

That sounds a lot like my next read.

It is worth it. Assign to it to your kids, as well. They will be happy to take your recommendations.

I am hopeful that it will create a lot of anon proxy services (already tried and tested via xmrbazaar.com) which even normies will start searching for. Best bet is relocation to a less draconian country without the infra to enforce it. Sure every country will try, but succeed like the pandemic tyrannical laws, will be a very different story. People will eventually get angry enough and push back in their own way. But the ones using privacy tech and living remote early on won't be the low hanging fruit. Keep all your paper documents scanned and backed up including old expired ones.

Thanks for the tips.

It can be pseudonymous, yes. But I'm not sure one should equate decentralization and privacy. Bitcoin is decentralized, and it isn't particularly private.

@Hawk I like your two lanes, a dumb phone in KYC land and privacy everywhere else.