Originally Posted by
anon
Highly unlikely. Prosecutions of individual members are a very time-consuming and unrewarding PR disaster for the plaintiffs. The biggest targets are those who run the ship and receive that donation money: moderators, administrators and sysops. Perhaps specific regular users that uploaded something very sensitive (e.g. Hurt Locker, Wolverine workprint) or pissed Disney off enough, but even that is a distant second place.
There's a reason staff accounts are those least affected by Gazelle's data retention policies, nya.
No, BitCoin is the complete opposite of untraceable. All transactions are logged to the blockchain for the entire world to see. Mixers help by doing transfers on your behalf and obscuring the original source, amount, time and date, but then you need to add whoever runs the mixer to your chain of trust.
Monero averts this dilemma by design.