The ledger being public doesn’t prevent illicit use, like darknet markets. They use mixers or onion routed payments.

In the context of this thread, the centralized exchange is Taler Operations AG.

Taler offers anonymity for consumers but not for merchants. Every transaction everywhere - including Taler - has a sender and receiver.

Sorry if this is rude, but you are spreading misinformation, not knowledge.

I’m not condemning Bitcoin. I prefer to make falsifiable claims over unfalsifiable claims. Which claim(s) are incorrect?

Bitcoin allows the seller to evade taxes, lacks a central exchange, and has no distinction between Merchants and Consumers.