It is the only alternative we have, the rest are shitcoins, there are ways to make it untraceable, for the common mortals just use Lightning.
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Its not that simple. Lightning only offers privacy at higher levels such as bolt11 or bolt12. What happens if your peers are compromised? What if you make a mistake a year from now with mixing coins or sending to an already used address? You cant half ass it, you have to have perfect opsec, even with lightning.
I wouldn't say it is the "only alternative" but it is the only one without giving up behaviours that have ingrained themselves with the advent of modern globalism & online shopping...
dont do this unless you know what you're doing.
by which I mean you know *how to determine* what privacy guarantees you are getting.