For your 'theory' to actually play out Anonymint you would have to have all law enforcement agencies around the world able to access anyone in the world - just about guaranteed to never happen. Know who the owners of the public addresses in question were (many of which would never be associated with an exchange or any other business that would have real user details in any way) - impossible. And, have to be able to have some way of tracking chains of millions and millions and millions of transactions, and deal with tumblers etc. In conspiracy land maybe, in reality not going to happen.
Agreed - and this is what I was kind of driving at in my last post. Its ironic that in Anonymints case of being ripped off to the tune of 2BTC it was done via a paypal account.
How much theft occurs via credit card ? Billions over the years no doubt - although they aren't too keen on letting us know. And how much of it is ever reclaimed by the banks - very little. This is in spite of the fact that all the transactions are transparent in pretty much a similar way to how BTC transactions are transparent right now. Wouldn't the banks, if it were
practically possible, what with all their power and resources and Government backing and NSA support etc etc - wouldn't they be able to reclaim that stolen money back ?