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What you wrote right there is "Once a drug dealer is busted, it's immediately known who ever bought drugs from them with cash". Do you seriously not realize that it's a loony thing to say?
Using monero or tumblers after buying the coins is of course a good advice in case the seller is a plant. But it doesn't mean that his coins are somehow magically retroactively connected to me when he's not a plant.
I really don't think you understand how deep KYC goes, and how patterns get established based on wallets. This is not "loony" stuff- OSINT people do this in their spare time. Your wallet is tracked and known and connected to your dealer already by people. But hey, you do you. Just remember that you have been warned three times.
First off, read the Privacy Guides recommendations for crypto: Monero only as it provides privacy by default. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/
Second, have you done KYC anywhere else? That CAN get connected indirectly to your wallet. How do you GET cash to pay Johnny Shadyshit? Did you pull out enough to also match that cash in the amounts paid by Shadyshit to a wallet within the same general time frame? Feds have this records, and if they roll Johnny, that's classic data they use to build a case. Did someone stupid that your dealer sells to have their girlfriend deposit money from Coinbase and send the exact same amount to their boyfriend who send the same amount to the dealer? They're connected to you, too. People you've never MET are making nodes on the network mapping. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/my-journey-without-kyc/36366
Edit: And hey, I get it. Back in the day, my guy told no one to bring cash by their place ever again because he knew local PD were likely sitting across the street. So he made everyone pay him with PayPal. Park a couple blocks away, pay with what was, at the time, " less traceable" because it wasn't a break-in robbery risk for him, and cash on hand is also something cops will get you for.
My guy, you might as well keep going with what you're doing. Fighting with anyone about it is straight up foolish in the face of everything I've showing you. But remember, you're taking a risk to maybe/maybe not be yet another example of someone ignoring all the warnings.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-worth-35-million-tied-213110010.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction https://www.crimeworld.com/ireland/how-30m-bitcoin-seizure-from-dublin-drug-dealer-could-lead-to-360m-jackpot-for-state/a/144477652.html https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-dealer-amassed-287k-in-crypto-selling-drugs-on-the-dark-web-meth-fentanyl-dealing-guns-weapons-handgun-rifle-ak-explosion-shot-crime-investigation-homeland-security-seattle-washington-money-thousands
Not quite.
Look, ask any serious privacy community, they'll give you the same answer. It's kind of a known standard.
Well, you presumably believe that you know what you're talking about, so why don't you tell me how this tracing is supposed to work?
I create a fresh wallet A. I go to John and buy bitcoin with cash, deposited to that wallet. John knows zilch about me other than that some person occasionally shows up with cash, among dozens other people.
John gets busted, his wallets are known.
How does the FBI tie wallet A to me?
Not sure if you saw my edit in the previous comment as it looks like you were responding at the same time. Back in the day, my guy made everyone that bought from him move to PayPal because, at the time, cops didn't want to do the extra work to subpoena PayPal. Plus, it meant less cash at his house, so less robbery risk. Things change, and I'm not trying to mess with you or freak you out - I'm genuinely trying to let you know you're holding onto an idea that stopped being low-risk 5 years ago and now using BTC is not a great idea. I'm trying to help you because I do, in fact, know what the fuck I'm talking about. FFS, you're being rescued, please do not resist.
Don't feel like reading? Here's videos: Reviews of crypto forensics platforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxmvQO2INE Your wallet is a data point that companies monetize by selling the data to law enforcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvNfGu_dio
Because it's not just you and D and John in the world - fraud cases are also adding pressure to law enforcement to track wallets. So you're up against millions in software companies and AI tools and old people losing money pushing these tools to go anywhere and see everything. https://youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389
Let's get personal. Here's two scenarios that do play out all the time, and which federal, state, and local cops contract out to get network intel on this:
It's a public ledger, so all BTC transactions are visible, both wallet names and values. And at this point, BTC wallets are part of the typical asset investigation list because it's so easy to track. KYC shows Janet bought BTC and immediately sent it. Tom is a bitch and for probation gives up D's name. D is now associated with that wallet. Local PD sit on D for a month looking at who comes and goes. and seeing which wallets touch D's wallet. That OSINT link I sent you is all about this. So the PD gets one pic of you walking up to D's house - so they have your face, which goes into ClearviewAI and gets them your name, address, phone number, etc. They notice that one wallet connected to D also serves as a hub and making BTC purcahses and immediate payments to lots of wallets, Because John doesn't take cash just from you, John takes cash from lots of people to buy BTC. That's John and D both easily on the list for subpoenas for phone records. After sitting on John for 2 weeks and D for 4 weeks, PD picks them both up. John's phone has Whatsapp messages, and the PD subpoenas Meta for those messages and Celebrite the rest. You accidentally called not on Whatsapp once, and you're connected to John - but you're also connected to D. You're just one of a dozen or two nodes in the network map that get picked up over the next week because you've left a trail.
You use a mixer? Cute - guess who has flagged the use of mixers as probable cause? https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-06/Public-Alert-Cryptocurrency-Mixing.pdf
Chainalysis LOVES that you think BTC is even slightly anonymous. "Senator, cash is, indeed, far less traceable than cryptocurrency." - https://youtu.be/DSyGE3BDpVg?t=65
Here's detectives talking up how easy it is to track you, across different coins, across mixers, there are methods Mostly that there's no delay between a payment happening and going to another wallet.. https://youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389
And they are willing to wait. And that data stays in play for YEARS. You been buying from D for 4 years? that's 4 years of patterns. THAT is the data trail you and D and John have left, not what you do today. It's what you've been doing.