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by mywittyname 2123 days ago
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.