You guys are thinking too small when you only think of unmasking Silk road purchases.
People with a real need to clean the pants right now are Chinese investors who are shipping their money out of China to avoid taxation (or confiscation) who have been using bitcoin to avoid government taxes.
It’s going to be a bloodbath in the Chinese financial community when the anonymity of those transactions get cracked.
It’s probably going to be significantly easier for the Chinese government to undo the anonymity of blockchain and bitcoin transactions than it would be for almost anyone else.
