Can CipherTrace Really Break Monero's Anonymity?

<p>CipherTrace came out over the past few months with claims to be able to reliably trace certain Monero transactions. Apart from an interview with key members of the Monero team, not much follow-up on these claims took place. I interviewed several experts from several different privacy-enhanced cryptocurrency projects: Francisco Cabañas of the Monero core team, project steward at Zcoin Reuben Yap, CTO of Beam Alex Romanov, and Electric Coin Company COO David Campbell. This is what they had to say on the subject.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Donate - Sponsors</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/6/c08cb11db17d83ff.png"></a><a href="https://nordvpn.org/dcn"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/1/525e9eeafe3ace37.png"></a><a href="https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/1/2d4cd3c9949d6a26.png"></a><a href="https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=rRIQPc1m"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/b/f137d0b33d1409e2.png"></a><a href="https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012"><img src="https://thumbs.spee.ch/view/d/35bf74741f029611.jpg"></a></p> <p>Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my <a href="https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx">CoinTree link</a>. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx</p> <p>Support us by checking out our sponsors! Protect your privacy online, <a href="https://nordvpn.org/dcn">sign up to NordVPN</a> with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, or just $3.71 per month, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn</p> <p>If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? <a href="https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c">Join LBRY</a>! - https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@