> But if I was a local drug kingpin in Baltimore, or a corrupt mid-level CCP official, or a Cypriot corporate money launderer, then Bitcoin deanonymization is probably a small risk in the scheme of things. Certainly orders of magnitude less risk than using the traditional banking system.
... for now.
The thing is, 2-3 tx/sec is basically snail mail. That's such a small number of transactions that there's not even a forest to hide within.
As the analytics tools improve the de-anonymization will be faster and more automatic, and that "tens of millions" figure will dwindle down to pennies. State actors can easily combine that data with actual fiat, and you'll be in court before you know it.
The problem is you're committing a ledger of your criminal activity to the cloud forever, and CCing your attorney general, smirking that they'll never figure it out. Of course they will. Either they'll figure it out or ban it. Or both.