I was having an argument with a friend. He says that you can't be anonymous to the bitcoin's network. Both nodes and wallets use, leads to an ip address where information can be found.
I had read in this forum that you can hide it with hardware? How exactly?
I don’t know about this for sure. But from what I have seen and according to see articles, you can’t be hundred percent anonymous when you’re making use of Bitcoin. There are people who are able to do that, but it’s going to cause you some stress. Every transaction has their IP address that’s linked to them, and I have heard that people can be traced with that IP address, but I think it’s only the government that has the ability or power to do that, and not an ordinary individual (if there are, then I am not aware of it).
Some people make use of some software to mask their IP address so that they won’t be traced and they also make use of Coin mixers to create more anonymity for themselves. I don’t think you will like to stress yourself this much when you’re only using it for legit purposes.