Yes, but no matter how private it is it's not going to help you if you receive fed funds on a transparent chain and send those funds directly to a KYC account like this guy did
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yeah i mean seems that this guy doesn't know about coinjoin or any additional layer of Bitcoin privacy.
when he decided to accept Monero payment, I'm wondering if Monero by default is intractable even if his account is linked to some KYC exchange, just that he's not aware of it.
*untraceable
There are certain attacks like EAE that can trace monero with higher accuracy (this is a major reason why Monero is upgrading to FCMP++), but it requires collusion on both sides (whoever gave you the funds and who you are sending them to being in cahoots)
If he had used Lightning privately or Monero they wouldn't necessarily know where he sent the money or that he sent it somewhere else in the first place. It would make tracing much more difficult. But I think the biggest mistake was sending it to an account connected to his identity in the first place. Doing it with a transparent blockchain just made much easier for them.
dude's too young to pay enough attention on opsec if he intend to be a pro cyber outlaw😂