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Considering it's criminals we're talking about here, they can easily use some rasomware attack on a few people and then use those bitcoins to pay for whatever they need, and noone can identify them through bitcoin "traffic".

You can at least make some people believe bitcoin isn't traceable at all, and it can be quite hard or even impossible to trace if you do it right.

>XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all

Any source? Can't find anything.

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatur...

I'm not qualified to say whether that actually achieves that goal though