its just a step in a broader goal though, whether you are just creating privacy from competitors or a merchant seeking privacy from their customers, or the customer seeking privacy from the data brokers, or the laundering trying to reintegrate funds that would otherwise be subjected to civil and criminal sanctions
to answer your "joke", if you are starting with illicit cash then getting it to crypto to further unlink is the harder part and fraught with its own paper trails and controls. but if you are starting with crypto earnings like a darknet operator is, then this is more applicable. the addresses on the server should have been funded with monero and never used for clearnet things, just accumulating more crypto from the marketplace to reintegrate back to clearnet addresses or the local fiat currency when desired, if ever.
its just a step in a broader goal though, whether you are just creating privacy from competitors or a merchant seeking privacy from their customers, or the customer seeking privacy from the data brokers, or the laundering trying to reintegrate funds that would otherwise be subjected to civil and criminal sanctions
to answer your "joke", if you are starting with illicit cash then getting it to crypto to further unlink is the harder part and fraught with its own paper trails and controls. but if you are starting with crypto earnings like a darknet operator is, then this is more applicable. the addresses on the server should have been funded with monero and never used for clearnet things, just accumulating more crypto from the marketplace to reintegrate back to clearnet addresses or the local fiat currency when desired, if ever.