Europe Targets Self-Hosted Bitcoin Wallets—and Financial Privacy – Reason Magazine

As inflation and economic disruption increase around the world, ostensibly stable governments look to increase controls on cryptocurrency. In late March, the EU Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs approved a new rule to the existing Transfer of Funds Regulation that would prevent regulated entities from interacting with self-managed wallets, propagandistically referred to as “unhosted,” […]