No worries. Too many parrots out there with a lack of understanding nuances.

0xbitcoiner

I think you just didn’t get @0xbitcoiner‘s point: **in the case of consolidation**, all inputs are linked together, no matter if he sends them to a new address or not.

I would still use a new address since this slightly increases privacy: with a new address, it is not guaranteed that the output belongs to the same owner of the first address.

Read the article I shared https://stacker.news/items/786123/r/ch0k1?commentId=786251

ch0k1

I must not be understanding something. What's the difference in terms of privacy in sending all utxo's to a new address or to address 1? 

bitcoin_beginners

Question About UTXOs Consolidation

No, I was right about it in the sense as explained in the resource I shared not your misunderstanding about `the native public property` of Blockchain...