No one said "anonymous" before you did.

Yeah. It doesn't.

Illuminating. Thank you.

For more serious observers:

Bitcoin is "pseudoanonymous", right? Am I wrong in assuming that state level actors would have the juice to deanon transactions? Like we suspect NSA and others have hacked tor?

Naive me guesses bad guys launder bitcoin thru banks beyond the reach of interpol and other agencies. That seems like a thin, easily pierced veil by any sufficiently motivated state level player.

I've watched some videos about money laundering for noob audiences like me. Based on some of the strategies explained, another notion occurs to me: use a herd of smurfs to launder the bitcoin into physical assets.

I was 100% serious. Your understanding is already correct. I'm not sure what else you're hoping to read; there's nothing for me to add. What you're saying is exactly the case. You can find lots of stories if you Google, e.g. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/why-criminals-cant-h...

Ok. Thank you. Will read. Peace.