that is worrying news, and not surprising really.
this is really about jurisdiction, and if a system has none they have to entice people into giving consent to being governed voluntarily.
i feel a lot of the confusion on people's part comes from the system-fused understanding and the omnipresent, trained use of language:
what people really mean when they say "person", is individual. but an individual is not a person. an individual can have many persons he himself has not created (such is the case with someone who holds multiple passports for example. those are created by another person, i.e. a "government" or - technically - a company).
now it could be argued that people who use hive or bitcoin have the blockchain create persons - avatars - on their behalf. but to "identify" those and equate them to a legal fiction of the old system is a mere insinuation on the system's part (namely that they are identical when they are provably not) and an act of willful ignorance on the user's if they comply.
i know you are not a person, you are a living being the system has not made. i have read your posts long enough to know you are alive, you feel and think. persons do no such thing. persons are administrative handles that are used by people in order to interact with any given system or network.
the person we have and use daily in public may have been a good idea in principle but has gone completely off the rails - it is being abused. precisely because people who see and identify themselves with that person, automatically have to follow the laws and regulations of its creator, instead of following their own. which is something we human beings just cannot seem to understand.
"my house, my rules" sort of siuation.
"legal fiction" and the concept of the "strawman" would be a great starting point of research for anyone reading this who is interested. just be aware that the system does its utmost to omit the true distinction between its fictions it has control over on the one hand - and living, breathing human beings it has no control over on the other.
thanks for the thought provoking article, that was way more than i intended to add originally.
blessings