I gladly make Bitcoin transactions regularly online for the same reason I use cash in person: privacy.
Everyone is selling data but they can't sell what they don't know. That is worth a premium to me.
Everyone is selling data but they can't sell what they don't know. That is worth a premium to me.
I buy my Bitcoin with Monero on decentralized exchanges.
Anyone who has transacted with you can do that, so then anything sent/received from that wallet address is linked to you.
You can get around this by having many wallets. If you don't reuse those wallets, then a counterparty cant directly identify your other transactions. That means you need to have your balance distributed among many wallets, in denominations small enough that they would be consumed in a single spend.
But - you need to get the funds into those wallets in the first place. You cant simply split up your wallet, as these wallets would be linked to each other via a common ancestor. Instead, you would need to receive from a 3rd party, but then they would be able to identify the transaction from that wallet as coming from you...
So to remain anonymous, you simply never transact with anyone other than yourself ;)