Bitcoin was never anonymous but pseudonymous. Monero is anonymous. Authors should have known this obviously and not claim they broke the non existent anonymity.
I'd figured watching the Canadian feds almost without effort seize crypto assets of their political undesirables made it clear that there was no layer of anonymity or security to cryptocurrency, and that they could easily be made as regulable as nearly any other asset
Don't you think that claim of anonymity in bitcoin was already busted since the days of CryptoNote decades ago, [0] where we now have privacy coins like Monero, Zcash, Grin and especially MobileCoin (The one that is used in the Signal app, allow users private p2p payments) that are around? Is that why they are getting delisted and not Bitcoin?<p>I don't see the privacy guarantees Bitcoin is claiming to offer, unless it has achieved its utopian intention to dismantle and replace the whole financial system with everyone only using Bitcoin to transact with. Given that it hasn't, you can trace everything up to the exchanges and you'll be gladly met with KYC to associate your custodial wallets with the addresses you interacted with, for everyone to see.<p>Now, can the same researchers blow up the claims of the top privacy coins that actually guarantee anonymity and privacy with both the sender's and receiver's transactions and wallet info being hidden?<p>I'll wait.<p>[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201028121818/https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20201028121818/https://cryptonot...</a>