You might have mis-parsed the article headline? I think it should be read "(Anonymous crypto wallets) now illegal in the EU", not "(Anonymous crypto) wallets n

You might have mis-parsed the article headline? I think it should be read "(Anonymous crypto wallets) now illegal in the EU", not "(Anonymous crypto) wallets now illegal in the EU". Ie, you are probably agreeing with the headline. Either way; although I'm sure the EU won't be the last governmental to do this it undermines the pro-EU argument. The upside is they stand up to Apple and force them to use the right sort of charging cable ... and the downside for that is they expect to monitor literally every payment you can make; setting up for some really nasty authoritarianism. One of these things is substantially more consequential than the other.