How would they know if you’re sending them money for monero or something else, though?

No conspiracy involved, I’m just saying what I think will happen.

Most of the values of today’s eu are the polar opposite of the values that made Europe a global superpower back in the day. Things like freedom of speech and thought, freedom to assemble, engage in commerce, own property, the right to privacy, to be secure in your possessions, to bear arms, rules like volenti non fit injuria, equality, meritocracy, self determination and individual sovereignty are all severally limited or downright non existent. eu chose to replace the liberty of Europeans with a promise of security ensured by self proclaimed elites and the result of that is a techno-bureaucrato-etatistic master/nanny state that tries to ban math (encryption), ban foreign and domestic news outlets and opinions that disagree with the establishment because you’re too stupid to make up your own mind and even political candidates just in case you make the wrong decision.

oc btw.

This overregulation is detrimental to the economy too, in 2008 eu’s economy was 8% larger than that of USA, now its 23% smaller even thoe more countries joined it since. Since 2008 the powerhouse of the eu - Germany’s GDP per capita grew by only 14% Italy’s decreased by 9%, Spain’s decreased by 7%, the French are still poorer than they were in 2008 while GDP per capita of China quadrupled and USA’s nearly doubled. While China and USA are busy building and innovating, eu is banning and regulating. Out of 1300 startups valued at over $1b 600 is in the USA, 300 in China and 60 in the eu, even less than in India.

eu claims to be this shining beacon of democracy everyone should be learning from while the eu’s president Ursula von der Leyen wasn’t democratically elected and the only democratically elected body, the eu’s parliament (that holds almost no power because the eu commission decides what it votes for and can withdraw the proposal if it doesn’t like the amendments it makes and because it’s decision can be overruled and bypassed by the council of the eu) most of the time doesn’t even count the meps’ votes. Instead most votes are done by raising ones hand and the parliament’s speaker eyeballs the result (yes really, look it up).

If Europeans don’t come to their senses and return to the true european values, immigrants will simply outcompete them, because their values, while not ideal, as it stands are superior to the values of the eu.

The cryptowar was an attempt to limit the public’s access to encryption. This attempt largely failed and most of today’s internet traffic is encrypted. Right now we are at the dawn of the cryptowar ll and cryptography is under attack once again through things like backdoors, client side scanning, ban on E2EE, cryptocurrency regulations etc. Cryptography in combination with blockchain technology has potential to revolutionize many aspects of society, like the monetary system through cryptocurrency, property rights and contracts through onchain deeds and digital signatures, decentralized cryptographic identities and direct/delegate voting with zero knowledge proofs. Historically this things required a central, trusted authority but soon™ that may no longer be the case, and at that point there will no longer be a need for a central trusted authority and without it many avenues of abuse of power will disappear too.