...necessary for bitcoin, but problematic from the anonymity perspective. The idea gnawing that the back of my mind is that, with the bitcoin equivalent of car

...necessary for bitcoin, but problematic from the anonymity perspective. The idea gnawing that the back of my mind is that, with the bitcoin equivalent of carrier-level traffic analysis, where a truly VAST swath of transaction/bitcoin history is known purely by way of the bitcoins themselves, "someone/anyone" might know much more than we would ordinarily expect them to, given our commoner's understanding of the total network state (in non-real-time) as an ordinary, layman participant at the ground level. Worse still, is the idea that such large-scale network awareness would then enable "parallel evidence construction" or bizarre trading strategies for market manipulation, denying any understanding to participants that such problems even exist. This is not just a problem for criminals, but also from a large-scale trading perspective, when approaching a global population of participants where many, many entry-level players have serious disadvantages, compared to higher-order traders. Instinctively, to me at least, the barrier to manipulating bitcoin value feels drastically lower than traditional currencies. Maybe these sorts of baked-in fundamentals play a role?