Thanks for the link. Any more? Is there any organized consensus to keep/confiscate crypto payments, if the chance should happen, that someone tried to spend/deposit directly from an adress known to have stolen 1000s of BTC? ;how did/does the best practice/legislation around develope?
They go to anonymizers (coinjoin, mixers), paying other people for stuff
Intermediaries take responsiblity of attempting to create that fog around their sets of addresses and customers.
A lot of behavior is recognize-/reverseegineer-able. The decentral stucture/transaction fee and block size set a relatively low limit to the confusion and the required computation to analysing the blockchain.
How would you know what had been bought with that Bitcoin?
just phrased raw vision what was possible if a major player - bank of america, facebook or some union (if cryptocurrencies win)
would integrate Bitcoin (- else, for now, coinbase? -) and apply their significant portion of knowledge of everything happening in the blockchain to even translate every other transaction as well.
Everyone is connected. There are no random transactions. How far you may get solving the puzzle depends your seed/source. By amount, validity and distribution of your information the amount and likeablity of clues increases exponentially. Computers win "guess who?"
Also, those two lines "96.22%..." and "99.97%..." don't make any sense as to how would the sender be able to use the same coins twice to purchase weapons and such?
Yes, better UI would use a conjunction instead like 96.22% it was the sender but 3.75% the previous owner, just typed separated guesses to sound like some AI, since today AI have a reputation using dumb language.