Your claims about tracking bitcoin don't hold water.
Bitcoin currently has about the same amount of anonymity as cash. Just like cash can be tracked by serial numbers, bitcoin can be tied to accounts that nobody knows who owns them.
Prove me wrong by telling me the name of the person who made this transaction: https://mempool.space/tx/aa394e99f4406cbd23b91dba331cd8c57f1ac572447791ad46f0361b20998c92
> prove me wrong by fighting this straw man I created
> bitcoin has the same anonymity as cash
Prove yourself right by showing me the publicly available transaction history of every dollar bill in existence.
You can't track cash as it changes hands. You can track which bank ATM it left and which one it wound up in, that's about it. Cash can't be tracked from one hand to another using serial numbers.
Doesn't the last paragraph describe lightning? A point of entry & exit, can't track what happens in between?
Oh I didn't think about this... A bank can't force you to "deposit at an ATM". A counterparty can force close your channel. So even lightning is jot as good as cash.
Also cash has no payment processors. Lightning doesn't have to have them, but in practicality almost always does, in the form of large liquidity providers offering channels as a service.
