Re: Mixers and their reason to exist in the bitcoin ecosystem
Giving up your privacy to "protect the children" is not a notion I'd expect from a 11 year old Bitcoin user. What's next? That we don't need privacy, because we have nothing to hide? 
So by me saying that bitcoin is traceable you deduct that I'm an NSA supporter? 
aight
It is both scam and unreal, because chain analysis is a scam itself. As soon as a transaction is made, you can't tell if the coins have changed hands.
I take it that it's pretty unlikely for a known service address such as from a mixer or from an exchange to be of the same ownership as a third party sending coins to it. So chain analysis is pretty real and has been quite handy for many uses, one of which has been catching criminals.