This misses the point. None of this information is visible to bisq - only to you and your peer. When you use an exchange you have a regulated honeypot of information that is required by law to keep your data on file for 7 years. With p2p one person who probably doesn't care knows who you are, but you can coinjoin so they gain no further insight into your affairs.
If you're making a video it's worth mentioning the pros and cons. Use cases. Part of the learning experience.
But the point still stands because your trading partner has the info. If a government wanted to figure out who owned that UTXO all they’d have to do is press the sell who’d give up some random person they don’t know in a heartbeat. Or the government could be the seller just pretending to be a bitcoiner looking to sell some coin.
Think of the effort required to do this vs simply asking an exchange with tens or hundreds of thousands of customers to cough up the info. No one is saying you might not grab a couple hundred bucks from a spook, but there's a huge difference from having the entire history of everything you ever did with a single entity.
Oh I agree that it definitely makes it harder to find you but it definitely doesn't make it impossible
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