You have to read what I wrote. Bitcoin is pseudonymous.
The fact of the matter is that you can't back up your claim that companies are able to identify who made that transaction. They can ocassionally tie a transaction to a person, but as soon as the money moves, they don't know it it's still that person's money.
At this point we're just talking past each other, so I guess I'll just end with: have a nice day. 👋
We see exactly how the reality is. They block tainted coins, they tie UTXO to persons etc. There are already cases at the court.
The fact of the matter is that chainanal is mapping he entir utxo set. Probably more than 90% of new users come in through KYCed gateways or ETFs and the anonset of people who have*avoided* KYC is only going to get worse.
Because when there is NO GOOD WAY to add entropy back into the system, it trends towards maximum surveillance.
You can argue that is good enough for now,
but Bitcoin privacy is in a pretty sad fucking state and its only looking to get worse in the short term.
Most of the network is already under surveillance and they *certainly* be sure when you do self transfers etc.
Beyond that you're just trusting the legal system to do the right thing.
