Not anymore though - my 1 BTC is not equal to your 1 BTC anymore if mine comes from a mixer and yours comes from an exchange. My coins are now considered by most exchanges as tainted. What if your government considers them to be tainted as well, but kept quiet so far?
P2P exchanges like Bisq falls into the same category Monero does. It pretty much anonymizes your trading activity as much as it can. This is why the "XMR is bad" argument falls short imo.. if mixers and Bisq are suggestions, then the way XMR works is automatically a solution and not a problem.
That's why say virgin blocks mined in China, have more value than btc that's been tumbled online, virgin addresses never used private-keys are more valuable.
BTC != BTC
Some animals are more equal than others.
Almost all of BTC is a myth, big lies, private, cheap, fast,safe, un-hackable ... blah-blah all lies
The problem here is the exchanges, so all 'mixed' coins are now tainted and un-usable; The solution here is to use lots of different exchanges worldwide, and find one that will except your tainted btc's, but I'm assuming most likely that if your btc comes from exchange 'russia', that coinbase will also call that tainted.
People like to deny problems, but the problem is the exchanges, and they're all being policed.
Who gets to buy the virgin blocks mined in China? The mafia that's who, then the little people get stuck with the tainted change
The founders of this scam love this cuz the more of BTC that goes out of circulation the more the price rises.
Another problem is depositing, I noticed the other day that transferwise will not send your money to bitstamp, I mean hell, its your money. So not only do the exchanges not accept your btc, but 'banks' will not let you buy clean btc from exchanges, so what's a mother to do?
Then you end up on 'localbitcoins', send cash by transfer and/or cash to 'someone', and you don't have clue whether the btc you just bought is clean or dirty.
It's just like fiat, said that 99% of all USD bills have cocaine traces, most money is dirty, most btc in time will be dirty. Lot's of people use coinjoin ( modern replacement for banned mixing ), to combine change, but if the exchanges flag an address that's every been mixed then your btc is rejected, so then you go back to localbitcoins, and find a guy who pay's you 50% on the BTC, the new may or not be clean.
So there becomes three levels of BTC
1.) virgin mined, never touch, 60% owned by chinese billionaires and sold to their mob friends
2.) common btc, that's never been mixed
3.) dirty btc, that is refused by KYC exchanges
So 1 gets you 200% , 2 get you declared price, and 3 gets you 50% haircut if your lucky, hell even FIAT (USD) is better than this