I don't buy that for a second. It's a baseless statement, like "things would've been worse if Obama wasn't president" or some other such ex-post-facto unfalsifiable justification.
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ETFs, MSTR and 130 other publicly traded companies, 6 (ithink) nation states with proposals for bitcoin reserve - we could still have that while being perfectly anonymous (I've heard monero isn't, but for the sake of the situation, I'll accept it for a premise) ?
Of course. Gold is perfectly anonymous. Dollar bills are almost perfectly anonymous. Lot's of ETFs have cash on their balance sheets, lots of public lucky traded companies have gold, lots of countries have USD and gold reserves. The only thing bitcoin has over Monero in this regard is time and therefore network effects.