[ipsin]

One question I have is, what could they have done to avoid such tracking?

I thought there were more secure coins, token remixers, etc., and that if you were determined and not stuck with one exchange or (say) Bitcoin, you could muddy the waters pretty well.

[mywittyname]

I don't think you can. After all, bitcoin et al are ledgers, so you can track any coin over its lifetime. It doesn't matter how many times you split them apart and shuffle them around. The fact that BTC works on proof of work means that tracking requires much, much less computational effort than the shuffling does.

You have to exit the network at some point to avoid tracking, but then you have the problem of finding an exit node that doesn't report to the US government and doesn't restrict capital flight. I have no personal knowledge of how difficult this is, but I imagine it's not easy. Then again, maybe you just need to know the right guy at Deutsche Bank.

[sgp_]

The really short answer is that you should not have an expectation of privacy when sending public transfers. Even in the best case that mixers protect your privacy, your transactions will be flagged by exchanges and services as relating to mixing or another privacy feature. The really only way to have privacy without drawing suspicion is Monero. It sounds like shilling but it's true.

[kim0]

They could have used Monero to avoid such tracking