^ This.
Or imprisonment in a work camp until you cough up. Sucks to be you if you genuinely don't have it.
Stalin had his "Gold Rush" in the same year as Roosevelt, but Stalin had the machinery ready to go to torture the gold out of everyone, and Roosevelt did not (but Roosevelt had KYC records to go after).
https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebpot3j4kkfgcq5kcwhjcp6t4lggtgnyz62xzmnpk4c5cwxbrbnfy?filename=%281%29%20Aleksandr%20Solzhenitsyn_%20Jordan%20B.%20Peterson%20-%20The%20Gulag%20Archipelago%20%28Vintage%20Classics%29.pdf
Current Western governments have both sets of capabilities.
Avoid KYC!