Pseudonymous, not anonymous. The piece walks the clustering heuristics chain analysis actually uses (common-input-ownership, change detection), then corrects two things I see repeated: Silent Payments did not replace CoinJoin, it solves receiving privacy with no amount mixing and a real scanning cost. And JoinMarket is not dead, it is coordinator-less and kept running, with joinmarket-ng continuing it. There is a table of what each tool protects and what it does not, plus a walk-through of reading your own txns on a block explorer.
Pseudonymous, not anonymous. The piece walks the clustering heuristics chain analysis actually uses (common-input-ownership, change detection), then corrects two things I see repeated: Silent Payments did not replace CoinJoin, it solves receiving privacy with no amount mixing and a real scanning cost. And JoinMarket is not dead, it is coordinator-less and kept running, with joinmarket-ng continuing it. There is a table of what each tool protects and what it does not, plus a walk-through of reading your own txns on a block explorer.