> a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer As in, deploy contract, yes. As in, have enough liquidity to both “mix” (aka launder) money and provide suffic

> a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer As in, deploy contract, yes. As in, have enough liquidity to both “mix” (aka launder) money and provide sufficient anonymity, no, that’s a network effect which is largely winner-take-all. The largest mixers will be the safest and most effective but then also the biggest targets. As you go down the list, they get less likely to be sanctioned but more likely to be unsafe/honeypots/ineffective.