Being anonymous is staying unknown to the world. This means what we've done is visible to the world, but who has done is unknown to the world.

When we talk about privacy. It is a concealed think, only if the person himself reveals it gets known to the rest. As of now anonymity is the term that is right for the usage with bitcoin as it doesn't provide with the perfect privacy for the user.

you just have to avoid any transactions that will make you input your name. this is hard to do whenever you want to cash out actually. p2p isn't private too. just like exchanges, they keep records. when kyc is submitted, they own it.

keep an account where you can disclose to any 3rd party which has enough funds no one will bat an eye. then also create a wallet where you could also keep privacy.

Bitcoin's privacy level is dependent on the user's behavior and full anonymity cannot be achieved. So I think the closest we can get is the "privacy" term, because anonymity is not present in BTC's current blockchain.

You seek privacy when you want people to simply not know why you're moving money or what other addresses you own. You seek anonymity when you want everything about your finance to be hidden.

You can't be anonymous if everything is transparent. Anonymity is wearing a full on cloak. You're hidden from others and nobody knows anything about you. Privacy means having just a little wall between you and others. They know you're there, but they can't do much more than that unless you leak crucial information yourself.

With bitcoin, i believe it is more of a privacy thing than anonymity. To be private is different from being completely anonymous. If you are private, there is a restricted access to you, but if you are anonymous, there is usually no way to be accessed.

Also, you can stay private with bitcoin transactions but not completely anonymous because if need be, you can be traced by the authorities who have alligned themselves with some technologies to do so, that is not anonymity.

But you have to understand that there are blockchain analysis company that can find the link of your address and identify the person itself. Perhaps the best question is how to protect our identity and what measures to make it private?

1. VPN + Tor
2. Tumbling services or bitcoin mixers
3. Wasabi, Joinmarket, Samourai

There could be more practice to really protect our anonymity and privacy.

There is no real anonymity with bitcoin if you are exchanging for fiat which is what 99% of people do with crypto,  and while crypto is linked to fiat there really is no "privacy" or anonymity and even if you purchase an item legitimately using only crypto there will always be a trace on it just like any other sale.

The only way to stay as close to anonymous as possible is by never selling your coins for anything physical (or even digital such as games). As long as you sell your Bitcoins, you have cancelled your anonymity and I think there are other ways you could do this as well besides selling.

Once you buy a phone from me through BTC, even if those Bitcoins have been mixed and so, even if this happens P2P, I know your public address so I know who exactly you are on the blockchain. Monero gives you anonymity instead: besides the amount received, there is nothing you get to know about me. It's very close to cash payments, but even those are numbered (have a serie written on it).

You can't really be anonymous when a ledger is transparent, but you can definitely achieve high levels of privacy.

Bitcoin transactions are not private, privacy is about someone not being able to observe and document those actions, the blockchain is public, there is no privacy about transactions, the only thing that makes them semi-anonymous is that you can't link the sending address to a person in most cases. Bank transfers are private, only you and the receiver or sender will know about that transfer, nobody is able to monitor it freely, the merchant that has got 100$ from you won't be able to look at a chain and see all the payments you have made in your entire history from that bank account, but the same time they are not anonymous since they are linked to your name and ID details.


And how do you keep your privacy when you spend those coins?

Mixers are being used to break the links when somebody wants to trace your movement, so :
I get paid by X, I use a mixer, I buy something from Y, no matter how closely you watch all the payments made by X you will never find out one of his employees bought something from Y. That doesn't change the fact that X knows who I am , and that doesn't change the fact that Y also does as I went to him to buy the stuff or he had it delivered to my home

Make sense. Just curious how many are still can manage to keep their anonymity from everyome except Satoshi. So indeed you also give up that, everyone must have sell their bitcoin right?

Cant disageee with that cause you are right but keeping it as long as I can is the preventive way of keeping my privacy somehow.