[starbase]

Irresponsible headline. Nobody who has done an hour of research in the last decade expects that flavor of anonymity on the blockchain.

[8bitsrule]

Thanks in large part to the mathematician who's the subject of the article, set in and before 2013.

Straight from the horse, PDF: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

[litoE]

The original article is not about the anonymity in the blockchain per se, but about the first person who made it explicit and published papers describing it, over "a decade" ago.