Thankfully the average user is often too lazy to understand the more complex bullshit trends. As DaveF said, there is no 'non-financial' transaction because if that is defined as 'no transfer from A to B', it is just wrong. Let a wealthy individual create 10 million OP_Return transactions and afterwards let's see where the wealth is. If it was "non-financial", the individual should be sitting on the same amount of Game 789... The 'tainted' vs. 'clean is easier to grasp because the media has done its part. 'Game 789 is only used for illicit transactions' - 'oh my god, I can't buy Game 789 because a drug dealer might have possessed it at some point in the past'. That's simple, but utterly stupid of course as there was research done on fiat notes and I can't remember the share of all fiat notes in existence that are contaminated with cocaine, but it was staggering. Does the average fiat user care? No, but imagine the media would exaggerate all day long the possible consequences of fiat possession or usage the same way, asserting that possessing a fiat note with traces of cocaine could get you in trouble and police now conducts random samples on the street, it would be quite entertaining to see how people behaved in that case. 'Financial' vs. 'non-financial' is probably to cumbersome to dive into for most. I believe they won't outright ban self-custody, but they are already making self-custody unpleasant because as soon as you interact with any centralized off-ramp in the EU, some exchanges require you to prove ownership of an address and so on and so forth. 
Thankfully the average user is often too lazy to understand the more complex bullshit trends. As DaveF said, there is no 'non-financial' transaction because if that is defined as 'no transfer from A to B', it is just wrong. Let a wealthy individual create 10 million OP_Return transactions and afterwards let's see where the wealth is. If it was "non-financial", the individual should be sitting on the same amount of Game 789... The 'tainted' vs. 'clean is easier to grasp because the media has done its part. 'Game 789 is only used for illicit transactions' - 'oh my god, I can't buy Game 789 because a drug dealer might have possessed it at some point in the past'. That's simple, but utterly stupid of course as there was research done on fiat notes and I can't remember the share of all fiat notes in existence that are contaminated with cocaine, but it was staggering. Does the average fiat user care? No, but imagine the media would exaggerate all day long the possible consequences of fiat possession or usage the same way, asserting that possessing a fiat note with traces of cocaine could get you in trouble and police now conducts random samples on the street, it would be quite entertaining to see how people behaved in that case. 'Financial' vs. 'non-financial' is probably to cumbersome to dive into for most. I believe they won't outright ban self-custody, but they are already making self-custody unpleasant because as soon as you interact with any centralized off-ramp in the EU, some exchanges require you to prove ownership of an address and so on and so forth. 

Thankfully the average user is often too lazy to understand the more complex bullshit trends. As DaveF said, there is no 'non-financial' transaction because if that is defined as 'no transfer from A to B', it is just wrong. Let a wealthy individual create 10 million OP_Return transactions and afterwards let's see where the wealth is. If it was "non-financial", the individual should be sitting on the same amount of Game 789... The 'tainted' vs. 'clean is easier to grasp because the media has done its part. 'Game 789 is only used for illicit transactions' - 'oh my god, I can't buy Game 789 because a drug dealer might have possessed it at some point in the past'. That's simple, but utterly stupid of course as there was research done on fiat notes and I can't remember the share of all fiat notes in existence that are contaminated with cocaine, but it was staggering. Does the average fiat user care? No, but imagine the media would exaggerate all day long the possible consequences of fiat possession or usage the same way, asserting that possessing a fiat note with traces of cocaine could get you in trouble and police now conducts random samples on the street, it would be quite entertaining to see how people behaved in that case. 'Financial' vs. 'non-financial' is probably to cumbersome to dive into for most. I believe they won't outright ban self-custody, but they are already making self-custody unpleasant because as soon as you interact with any centralized off-ramp in the EU, some exchanges require you to prove ownership of an address and so on and so forth. 

Thankfully the average user is often too lazy to understand the more complex bullshit trends. As DaveF said, there is no 'non-financial' transaction because if that is defined as 'no transfer from A to B', it is just wrong. Let a wealthy individual create 10 million OP_Return transactions and afterwards let's see where the wealth is. If it was "non-financial", the individual should be sitting on the same amount of Game 789... The 'tainted' vs. 'clean is easier to grasp because the media has done its part. 'Game 789 is only used for illicit transactions' - 'oh my god, I can't buy Game 789 because a drug dealer might have possessed it at some point in the past'. That's simple, but utterly stupid of course as there was research done on fiat notes and I can't remember the share of all fiat notes in existence that are contaminated with cocaine, but it was staggering. Does the average fiat user care? No, but imagine the media would exaggerate all day long the possible consequences of fiat possession or usage the same way, asserting that possessing a fiat note with traces of cocaine could get you in trouble and police now conducts random samples on the street, it would be quite entertaining to see how people behaved in that case. 'Financial' vs. 'non-financial' is probably to cumbersome to dive into for most. I believe they won't outright ban self-custody, but they are already making self-custody unpleasant because as soon as you interact with any centralized off-ramp in the EU, some exchanges require you to prove ownership of an address and so on and so forth.