Dont be paranoid, but take precautions. I use Bitcoin for whatever I want to, nobody knows how much I have, and I sleep quietly at night. Of course, I dont engage in criminal activitythats outside my threat model. I just wantno, I demand privacy; and I have it, at the expense of some large effort. Its worthwhile!
Thanks, I appreciate all the information and links. I've got a lot of reading ahead of me. I've always been scared of what kind of files the blockchain analysis companies already have on us. I can't for the life of me remember many of the transactions I've made with bitcoins over the years, and it's scary to think that Chainalysis knows more about them than I do!
When bitcoins were trading in the $200s in a seemingly neverending bear market, none of this seemed to matter. Now that we're trading above $10k: life comes at you fast....