I pay you Btc that I acquired off exchange for a service. You buy groceries with the same UTXO, and then the grocery store uses that UTXO to buy more supplies. The suppliers then use that UTXO to buy more raw materials. Based just on addresses please enlighten me on how you would know owns the UTXO?

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Ok, then why do you care about all these other privacy improvements if it doesn't matter? Why do you want privacy?

None of your excuses (right or wrong) stops the state or chain analyst companies from associating your transactions with others: https://www.torekeland.com/roman-sterlingov/

Also doesn't stop others from connecting the dots (correctly or incorrectly):

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md