Have cryptocurrency payments ever been anonymous? This now means that I will not be able to pay for a sandwich and a coffee with Bitcoin until the seller checks me in the system, because actually the geniuses in power want to say that we are some kind of criminals, I guess?

However, Bitcoin exists to bypass such nonsense, because all their bans are worthless if you have a non-custodial wallet and send coins to someone who has the same wallet. First they fought against crypto mining, then they discovered that there is practically no such thing in the EU, and now they want to scare people from using Bitcoin - what's next, hunting Bitcoiners and burning them like witches in the Middle Ages?