Ask HN: Is there a place to buy Bitcoin almost anonymously?

So with the recent surge in bitcoin I went and wanted to buy some.

I havent yet found a market place which doesnt require me to have an email address, a phone number with SMS validation and to tell them my real name. bitcoin.de WTF? Might as well give them a blood and DNA sample?

Why is this so? Isnt bitcoin supposed to be pseudonomous?