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The authorities will simply obtain details from credit card companies and other financial institutions to get lists of all of Calyx's customers. All of their customers will be treated with suspicion. Being a customer of Calyx may even become probable cause.

I don't like this, but this is what I think will happen.




"The authorities will simply obtain details from credit card companies and other financial institutions to get lists of all of Calyx's customers."

Not if they accept bitcoin, or some other anonymous currency.


Bitcoin is not anonymous. It's the opposite. Every transaction is public. And how do you propose to obtain the bitcoin in the first place?




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