Alternatives to anonymizing cryptocurrencies

Besides tumblers and mixers, and the good ol' back-and-forth with XMR, what do you think could effectively anonymize your crypto? Both these methods are expensive as hell, specially now that Bitcoin Core accidentally the whole thing and tx fees are through the roof, so doing this for small amounts is extremely cost-ineffective.

I'm thinking of buying DOGE (fast and ridiculously cheap tx fees), transferring to Shapeshift.io for Litecoin (also cheap tx fees), which goes directly to Changelly for Bitcoin Cash (cheap tx fees, and Dream is starting to accept it, other DNMs are likely to follow suit). All of this behind onions for that sweet IP obfuscation, of course. Theoretically, both these exchanges would have to collude with LE for them to track them back to my ID, which is very unlikely. What am I forgetting here?


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[11 Points] asyutdgiuahohsa:

just monero and then use xmr.to if the vendor wants btc, stop trying to overcomplicate things


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[2 Points] _PrinterPam_:

What matters more is your 'use case.' Are you a small-time buyer, a big-time vendor, etc. If the former, you're most likely overthinking this.


[1 Points] Samjowen:

Stick to XMR, it is tried and proven, I can't believe people are still doing large orders in BTC.


[0 Points] perladdict:

The issue comes in because transaction require communication. Secure end to end protocols don't help because whatever devices you touched, they got some amount of information. It's a really active area of research as well as deanonymizing. Who knows, maybe you need like a prime number of types of coins say 0.001 btc, .01eth, and .1 xmr. Then maybe you convert to other coins where the returned value is the same but it's original # of coins +/- 1 but in new coins, .2 ltc .1 bcc, .001 dash, and 10 iota let's say. Those pair and trade say dash for iota and bcc for ltc. Then you mix them normally. Then each of those new and different coins finally consolidates to the coin you want. But that would potentially be slow and expensive so the exchange might have to set a flat fee. And I'm just rambling because you'd pass through so many nodes it might still be traceable so now you add in redundant slightly changed details to nest in the transactions, etc.

So I didn't answer your question but hopefully that explained why there are so many coins. And that's about the protocols value of anonymity. There's a lot more to consider like centralization, etc