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If it is the interest of FBI, also according to this article, in some places an email address is enough to open an account: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/booming

• SEJeff 6y ago
  https://www.coindesk.com/fbi-used-bitcoin-trail-to-catch-russian-rapper-accused-of-money-laundering https://www.coindesk.com/fbi-used-bitcoin-trail-to-catch-rus... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chinese-nationals-charged-laundering-over-100-million-cryptocurrency-exchange-hack https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chinese-nationals-charged... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ohio-resident-charged-operating-darknet-based-bitcoin-mixer-which-laundered-over-300-million https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ohio-resident-charged-operati... The upside of crypto currencies is decentralization, but a public ledger is public to law enforcement as well. With time and serious funding they often can link wallets to people. I’m not saying it is good, only as a matter of fact it is a thing.