Taler is _not_ a fully anonymous payment system nor does it claims so.

It solves two specific problems:

- merchants get way more personal information about you then they actually need (merchants as e.g. your grocery store)

- alternative payments system implementations not owned by visa

non of this points include, or pretend to include, that your transactions are anonymous to auditors. Taler is in it's documentation pretty clear about that. It's a improvement to existing payment systems in the framework and limitations of existing payment transactions.

For being a honeypot you normally discrepancy between disclosed information and actual situation or other way to try to trick people to disclose things they don't want to disclose.

Just because some improvement to existing payment systems isn't hitting some legally impossible ideal doesn't make it a honeypot or any other way malicious.