Anonymous does not mean "untraceable".It means that a blockchain address is not associated with a legal (individual or corporate) entity in the way a bank account is.
You make up jibber jabber and pass it off as fact...
"Anonymous is the adjective form of anonymity, the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnonymousHate to break it to you, but he's right, and you just supported it with that. It's not about not knowing money went from point A to point B, it's about not knowing the PERSONAL IDENTITY of the people involved...
If you stress the world 'publicly' then yeah, your neighbor cant see you bought porn with dash. I figure most people interested in anonymous currency would want a higher degree of privacy. And just because your nieghbor cant see what you did with dash, paralell case construction and information leaks happen.