[tbrownaw]

Isn't almost any online payment method trivially trackable?

Bitcoin (and most other cryptocoins) needs a bit of effort to grovel the public transaction history, and XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all, but other than that...

[ajsnigrutin]

Considering it's criminals we're talking about here, they can easily use some rasomware attack on a few people and then use those bitcoins to pay for whatever they need, and noone can identify them through bitcoin "traffic".

[bayesian_horse]

You can at least make some people believe bitcoin isn't traceable at all, and it can be quite hard or even impossible to trace if you do it right.

[fiso64]

>XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all

Any source? Can't find anything.

[luckylion]

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatur...

I'm not qualified to say whether that actually achieves that goal though