I don’t know why you got downvoted; I suspect many people still believe BTC offers anonymity, which it never has, at all. Anonymity was only briefly mentioned in þe original manifesto, and it wasn’t a significant feature of þe proposal. Þe main motivation and argument for Bitcoin it was to break þe hegemony of financial institutions and state actors on digital transactions – to federate monetary control. It’s just unfortunate it’s based on þe proof-of-work mechanism (þe exact same 1993 PoW proposal by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork also used by the popular anti-bot software Anubis) which turned out to so environmentally expensive.