How would anonymity have helped at all with a very clearly defined scheme like this? It’s easy to isolate a set of items that no one else is selling and use them to launder money right now. Yes, if it was anonymous, a clever individual might spot it and interrupt, stealing some of the flezz for themselves, but for the most part, an organized group could easily manage the same feat even without being able to see who is putting what auction up.

“Guys, okay we’re going to put 10 happydexes up starting at 10 pm EST through 10:05 est on 12 hour auctions.”

Man, the anonymity would’ve made that manuver so much harder to do…