How can anybody even use BitCoin without mixing? Isn't this an equivalent of giving everybody all over the world permanent read-only access to your bank account?
Also, acts as a mixer even if you end up storing your coins locally.
Good thing that there's no such people :)
I mean, if you love living within the hidden taxation called inflation of the fiat world, feel free.
I don't think I've heard anyone pretending this in the last 10 years.
Anything that happened to BTC was "good" for BTC.
For the uninformed, all transactions post to a separate address, so you'd have to correlate which addresses seem to be used together in various other transactions to tie transactions back to a single "wallet". (Ackchyually that's not entirely true; there are some low level details regarding UTXOs and HD wallets, but in practice you can assume it works like that).
And I don't think anyone (who is worth listening to) is advocating BTC for trivial transactions; it has already solidly cemented its role as a "wire" service for larger transfers.
LTC apparently seems "a better BTC" for trivial transaction. Also Monero which supposedly doesn't even need mixing.
Why do people even care using BTC which needs mixing when there are Monero and ZCash?
If you read early Bitcoin literature, you'll discover a number of very clear and vocal warnings against "address re-use".
The protocol was designed so that addies should not ever be used more than once or it would introduce vulnerabilities.
It's indeed kind of like giving everyone permanent read-only access to your bank account.
Except that, if Bitcoin was used as intended, there would only ever be one transaction per account and there would be a new account created for each new transaction, so who cares about the reveal.
It's too bad Satoshi didn't enforce the "one new addie for every new transaction rule) that at the code level (I guess the computational burden might have been an additional problem to solve).