100% CORRECT. And the question is begged, “How do people get Bitcoin anonymously?”, a key question left out of the equation. Leaving the distribution of bitcoin to exchanges is suicidal….do don’t do it!
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Agreed about normal exchanges. But isn't Lightning a way to get near privacy and thus Bitcoin anonymously? The network is built out and improving all the time, is decentralized et cetera.
If the method of payment is not disconnected to the “handing over” of the good or service, you are de anonymised, and as you’ve seen, the State is not averse to requesting mass dumps of records of completely innocent people.