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> doesn't mean law enforcement couldn't subpoena large node operators (?)
They could *try* to subpoena large node operators, but thankfully, routing nodes do not know the destination either. This is because the onion protocol lightning uses is designed so that routing nodes don't know their position in the route. Consequently, they do not know which node is the last hop, and cannot identify the recipient, who is the node after that.
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