“Anecdotes and online braggadocio about tax avoidance are not a reasonable basis to believe that all Coinbase users are tax cheats whose financial lives should be opened to IRS investigators and the hackers looking over their shoulders. There must be some specific information about particular users, or else the IRS is seeking a general warrant, which the Fourth Amendment denies it the power to do.”
https://fee.org/articles/the-irs-just-declared-war-on-bitcoin-privacy/
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