"Taking into account the above findings, instead of going after privacy-blockchains communities’ members to punish them, these tools should be, in my opinion, directed against privacy-cryptocurrency that creates ML/FT risks which cannot be overcome using any available approaches. The focus should be on the direct source of risk to public safety, not on the people which create that risk. An analogy to the off-chain world is where enforcement law agencies directly targeted the building constructed in violation of building regulation, and destroyed it rather than—or in addition to—targeting people responsible for the building’s construction. The ultimate aim of new tools in the blockchain space should be to reduce the economic value of the outlawed native cryptocurrency whose value drives the operation of a given platform, in particular by reducing trust in the stability and security of the network. If effective, means that reduce the value of the cryptocurrency will therefore reduce the number of the network’s users and nodes. The decreasing number of users and nodes (and thus the decreasing infrastructural and political decentralization"

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