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A bit of an off topic thing to ask, but as long as it's not a crime to buy it, why do you care if it's anonymous or not? It's like withdrawing cash in a bank. Yes, the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it's very hard to track it.
Never buy and spend with the same address and it should be private enough just by design.
Because it may not be illegal today, but may become tomorrow. Even if not, it still becomes linked to your PII.
"the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it's very hard to track it."
20 year US banking veteran here, in the US an insane amount of time and effort is put into cold tracing cash supply movements. Like, violent stalker ex pinning down your every movement, going through your garbage, zero potential return on investment kinda effort.
What's the point? Most of it probably switches over 10 hands through all the cash registers in shops or exchanges between people directly before it ends up in the ATM again.
Are there any cases of it being somehow useful?
It's commonly used in drug cases. But any benefit is dwarfed by the cost of maintaining all the required infrastructure. And, yes, the system is extremely vulnerable to data poisoning
Hopefully not to feed all the data into a dystopian AI that predicts future crimes and prematurely arrests people it sees as high risk potential.