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Mixers and coin tumblers could very well be honeypots. Want to easily see who has dirty money? Setup a mixer and find out!
by legrande 5y ago
Mixers and coin tumblers could very well be honeypots. Want to easily see who has dirty money? Setup a mixer and find out!
- colinmhayes 5y agoTornado is open source. You can go check if its a honeypot if you're worried.
- lisper 5y agoPassword managers and E2E comms apps as well. If I were running a government surveillance program it's a total no-brainer that one of the things I would do is develop and publish world-class versions of both of these, though obviously concealing the fact that they were connected to government surveillance from the users, and probably most of the developers as well.
- capnorange 5y agoMaybe. Most popular mixers are now open source, wasabi, samourai, tornado.cash
- throw10002671 5y agoPrivacy is a thing that people legitimately desire as well. You don’t tell your neighbors about the valuables in your home. If I acquire BTC to hold long term, it’s in my interest from an opsec perspective to keep it secret, keep it safe.