we really need to focus on increasing the size of our anonymity set
What are you trying to protect against?
The article swoops everything together, not really making a distinction between a nation state operating a dragnet and the ex spouse (fwiw the latter is way nastier.)
I don't think that if you're in the US, you can protect against the NSA, and excluding them is useful because for anything else, including "state of the art" chainalysis shit, you can probably beat with a small toolset and a good plan, the most important feature being your patience and knowing (not assuming or believing) that your tools are really up to the task, not just some bs some dude said. And that's probably where the pain really is at: I can't tell you which tools are good, because you can't take my word for it. And no, you cannot take anyone else's word for it either.
What we can talk about is weaknesses though, especially process weaknesses. So let's do that sometimes.
What are you trying to protect against?
The article swoops everything together, not really making a distinction between a nation state operating a dragnet and the ex spouse (fwiw the latter is way nastier.)
I don't think that if you're in the US, you can protect against the NSA, and excluding them is useful because for anything else, including "state of the art" chainalysis shit, you can probably beat with a small toolset and a good plan, the most important feature being your patience and knowing (not assuming or believing) that your tools are really up to the task, not just some bs some dude said. And that's probably where the pain really is at: I can't tell you which tools are good, because you can't take my word for it. And no, you cannot take anyone else's word for it either.
What we can talk about is weaknesses though, especially process weaknesses. So let's do that sometimes.