KYC/AML is going to be the death warrant of community banking and to a lesser extent the entire banking industry.
What happens when billions of ai agents need access to capital? Banks can’t onboard accounts for ai (maybe some sort of sub account system linking to individual/business??? But that’s just more friction).
Instead, AI agents will use stablecoins and crypto rails because they can do it quick, cheap and without friction of traditional banking. They can plug in directly and bypass our archaic systems.
When the amount of value being controlled by AI increases, the traditional banking system is going to see its light slowly dim until people realize what’s happening and accelerate the inevitable… deposit flight and bank runs.
This isn’t deposit flight moving to other banks though… it’s NEVER going back into the traditional banking system and therefore it will be incredibly pervasive and lasting.
Make the Dems actually stand up there and filibuster until Thanksgiving, I bet the needed senators will capitulate. Optics would match reality (they are blocking re-opening).
This is all great and fun but even your analysis points out the problem.
"thats it - if it doesnt end bitcoin - it becomes a decade of resistance point ending"
If it doesn't end bitcoin... The fact that's a non-zero possible outcome is the problem. If your serious you have to consider this.
Sometimes perception matters more than technical accuracy and becomes reality.
Responding that Elons net worth isn’t liquid isn’t really helpful. It’s true, obviously, but nobody that says he should give it all away cares about facts.
They should be educated on value creation and that they are effectively saying we should never progress as a society because nobody should have nice things they’ve earned until everybody does.
Not that they’ll listen to that either….
Second thought, just ignore them and keep working to make the world a better place on average.