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Francis Pouliot says BullBitcoin is suing the French government over DAC-8 rules, which mandate exchanges surrender client identification and transaction data.
Bull Bitcoin filed a legal challenge in France to annul the DAC8 directive, arguing it creates a massive surveillance grid that institutions cannot secure, putting crypto users at risk of kidnapping.
Jamison Law at Casa maintains a wrench attack database on GitHub showing an accelerating trend of these violent incidents. Bull Bitcoin argues DAC8's data consolidation will worsen this problem.
Bull Bitcoin claims DAC8 will incentivize users to move off-grid via peer-to-peer exchanges, home mining, or offshore alternatives, making tax collection harder. Francis Pouliot argues DAC8 turns ‘know your customer’ into ‘kill your customer.’
Pouliot says Bull Bitcoin is legally challenging DAC8 in France under proportionality arguments and EU Charter violations, aiming to repeal it, delay it, or mitigate its harm.
Pouliot says Bull Bitcoin’s MiCA license cost nearly $1 million, a barrier that makes starting a compliant exchange today impossible without early success.
PayJoin adoption is low but growing, with Bull Bitcoin, Cake Wallet, Sparrow, and Wasabi working on compatible versions; Pouliot sees it as key to breaking chain analysis's common input ownership heuristic.
Bull Bitcoin integrates Silent Payments to combat address reuse and quantum risk, having opened a pull request for it in their wallet and exchange.