Actually bitcoin has many strengths, but anonymity is not one of them. There have been multiple papers that go into how easy it is to trace, and even laundering

Actually bitcoin has many strengths, but anonymity is not one of them. There have been multiple papers that go into how easy it is to trace, and even laundering style services like SRO used aren't very good. http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf