> I believe it's due to ignorance of the increasing risks associated with bitcoin and of the existence of better technology. Smarter criminals are already using

> I believe it's due to ignorance of the increasing risks associated with bitcoin and of the existence of better technology. Smarter criminals are already using Monero. The risk is practically non-existent, they're not getting caught through the blockchain. > You don't even have to infer anything. Just look up a known address and you can see its entire transaction history. There are rich lists which allow you to track whales. You can literally see them deposit the coins on Binance when they're about to dump on the market. That shows a misunderstanding of how Bitcoin wallets work. There are some services that claim to track the inflow/outflow of Bitcoins to exchanges but they are very approximate and you can't track individual "whales". If you use a modern wallet there really shouldn't be more than 2 Bitcoin transactions per address (in and out). > Exchanges will refuse these coins and as a result so will everyone else because they won't be able to cash them out. That is false. PS: I know there are blockchains with better anonymity than Bitcoin but please, slow down with the overstatements.