In the US, for legitimate folks wanting to maintain privacy and break link between wallets on ETH network, are there any alternatives outside of TC?

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What are the cons for using a centralized exchange to break the link? Does 0x1 -> Coinbase -> 0x2 do the same thing as TC?

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Interesting. Ultimately, if you are wanting to withdraw funds to fiat and have to go through a centralized exchange to do so (do you?), dosen't the centralized exchange know at that point which wallet address is sending it crypto and see if it has ever interacted with a mixer?

No, because Coinbase and the feds can still know that the address is associated with you. With TC it is privacy from everyone