> Conclusion: Monero’s Privacy Remains Resilient

tl;dr every method from the private sector and the state has resulted in nothing, or an upgrade to the Monero network

for anyone interested in using Monero, consider using Feather Wallet. This wallet implements some better best practices than the community's wallet.

Feather Wallet does initial syncing over clearnet for speed, and then connects to TOR and then only connects to other nodes hosted over Onion network. So you aren't even needing to connect to exit nodes.

It also hides the root address which starts with 4, and only shows you subaddresses that starts with 8. I always felt it was important that nobody ever could distinguish between a root address and subaddress.

It ensures you don't re-use addresses, which is an ancient and still relevant best practice that most cryptocurrencies and wallet have avoided for user experience. Feather Wallet makes it easy though.

Timing attacks are still relevant. For anyone aiming to use Monero as merely a conduit, wait 1 week or 2 before moving funds out, and move them out in different denominations than you put in. (In comparison, if you put $50,000 of XMR in, and a couple ours later moved $50,000 of XMR out in one transaction, this could realistically deanonymize you.)

The more people using Monero for benign but equally as private purposes, the more it improves the utility of Monero for everyone.