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This seems like precisely the thing that a mixer service exists to defeat. I'd be curious to see how effective the approach is after the coins pass through suc
by Rychard 9y ago
This seems like precisely the thing that a mixer service exists to defeat. I'd be curious to see how effective the approach is after the coins pass through such a service.
Personally, I remain unconvinced that coins could be reliably traced through an "ideal" mixer service that moves a large number of coins between a large number of addresses via a large number of transactions.
Edit: A further requirement would be that the service would have to involve a large number of "legitimate" coins. This does disregard the possibility that the so-called legitimate coins would be considered illegitimate simply by association with said service.
That said, perhaps the difficulty lies in actually meeting such requirements.
- mirimir 9y agoThis is bad for mixers. That is, mixers work by not returning your coin, but rather someone else's coin. So if you mix stolen coin, you may get clean coin, but many others get dirty coin. I have read that some mixers draw on freshly mined coin. But coin from users must go somewhere, right?
- s17n 9y agoDid you actually read the article?
- pjc50 9y agoMixer services exist to facilitate money laundering and the transfer of stolen propery, so they are perpetually at risk of being shut down.
- kolinko 9y agoThey also facilitate privacy. I never used crypto for illegal purposes, but I still don’t wish for people who receive coins from me to know the state of my main accounts.