correct me if I’m wrong but this is an issue with every single centralized services, wallet or client-server protocol. of course there are mitigations against it that can be taken both on the server as well as client side. the protocol can be reinforced as well on the privacy side. we are definitely looking at all available options. not sure what you mean by “run a service”

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By "run a service" -- I mean, like the Ark or Arkade service, whatever the service that users have to hit in order to make a transaction. That's it. Obviously if a user is using Strike or Coinbase or PayPal, then that is the centralized "service" the user has to communicate with. I guess these L2s -- Spark, Ark, don't really "fix that issue either. They're not a privacy-preserving L2 like the Lightning Network. They can still aggregate your transaction data, IP address, user-agent, stuff like that, and then they have to turn it over, if, say, a certain government wanted to look at it. Maybe this is all expected, I'm still learning here.