Once you disclose the existence of the money publicly, you lose the benefit of hiding its exact location.
What?
I'm still looking for an explanation to your comment. I don't see how you can't obfuscate the output of the escrowed 0.5 BTC in order to prevent the tracking of the funds. Sure, you might know the amount... but how do you trace it from just that metric?
Maybe you're onto something that can break certain privacy-coins.
