Afaik, I can use a pseudonym when sending money through most cryptocurrencies.
If I buy coins with my credit card (real name), and I use such coins to make a payment under a pseudonym, can the recipient of the payment simply look up the sender’s pseudonym (where?) and link it to the real name which purchased the coins?
What about if I buy Monero (using Bitcoin, for example), and then use then exchange that Monero back into Bitcoin (or any other coin). I then use such coin to make a payment. Now how does the recipient reveal my real identity?
Because they’re not inherintly private. PG doesn’t recommend something that you have to go through hoops to make private; PG recommends things that are private by default. No one is saying that nothing else is ever private, and you can’t make something non-private private.
For example, a lot of people ask me “Why not just encrypt your files and then put them in DropBox or Google Drive?” I tell them, first off, shut up Madison, and second off, why would I jump through hoops to do something, when there is more private options by default, like Proton Drive?
Privacy Guides entire goal is to make privacy easy. Why would PG recommend something not easy, breaking crypto exchange’s TOS, to do something inherently not private?
About the buying Bitcoin with Monero, it’s really hard to do on mass, because no clearnet exchange that I know of allows you to sign up with a fake name. Otherwise, I think it might be private if you want to do that.