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However you want to define a process in which you personally cannot find out my financial details

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However if the adversary has hacked or has an inside contact at your ISP (or upstream router), or is the NSA, they can potentially use information about your traffic patterns to break the anonymity on the blockchain (not only for you, but for potentially for everyone mixing with you on the blockchain if they can do this for many of you).

In other words, the anonymity can potentially fall apart in the real world.

Let's break this down into chances. Me making my statement is probably true for 99% of the people that could potentially use cn/cj. Therefore, the fact that it does not hold true for 1% of those people does not necessarily accelerate the possible attempts of the other 99% to learn all of my information. Unless we're saying it absolutely does? Sure anonymity can fall apart in the real world, only that it hasn't been done yet .. there's not even a rich list for cn .. which tells me right off the bat that access to this information, if and once it's obtained, will be much harder to come by with at least CN. The fact that it's much harder shows that it has spam resistance which, again, is favorable IMO.

I agree that people could just get an ISP contact, or obtain access to resources. I've made the point that those resources would become infinitely valuable if we were to trust this information to them just the day before yesterday. The access to those resources will escalate to the point where it would be too costly for most people (spam filter).

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So yes time and resources are needed, but I bet surprisingly less time and resources than you might be assuming.

I'm not worried about my nieces hand ending up in my mailbox, if that's the level to which you're trying to observe my trust in online financial anonymity from people I've never met toward other people I'll likely never meet .. but I'm not gonna pack it up and go home just because some anonymous stranger on the internet tells me my goals are too big to be tackled (however good their intentions are). I'm not here to track the exact level of anonymity and throw it all down on horses, I'm here to say which guy is running faster or slower than the others .. and right now no matter the level toward which my finances are secure .. bitcoin is in dead last (you've helped me understand that by a lot). There's other problems with specific details, that you've also pointed out and I'll admit that list I made in your thread was created largely from your information, and some others.

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Hacking is something that can't be just wished away. It is a real and growing phenomenon. And your private information is for sale to the highest bidder.

That's why you're the best I got, Lisowski Cheesy

! All of anything ever is for sale to the highest bidder! The higher they have to pay, the more value I feel comfortable placing into what they're paying for. Of course there is a limit to which I'd trust anything .. but I can say right now that I'd be fine buying goods under $10 dollars right now with CN .. provided the service was offered .. of course I could also say the same about bitcoin here .. but at least with CN I might feel comfortable making $100 purchases in the future. With bitcoin I do not. Is this wrong?