Good points, Neal. The only way Central Authority can reach into your crypto wealth is if/when you convert it to fiat currency. That was my meaning in previous threads we have had that the true power of crypto, in the political sense, is to never bring it's value back to fiat. That conversion is the weak link. Central Authority will match wallets to individuals from info given to exchanges, which in turn will be forced to pass it on to Central Authority. Feeding cash into crypto ATMs and sending them to annonymous wallets will keep one off the radar of Central Authority.

In my country of origin we are permitted $750,000 capital gains over the length of a lifetime and $350,000 capital gains from property sales. So even if one does cash in they have a lot of space before theft can take place. My guess it is the same in most western nations.