I see some people talk about mixing bitcoins...why dont people just swap bitcoin? EG, Say I have 10BTC and I'll swap one of mine, for one of yours. I give you a wallet address to pay, you pay it, and provide a new address for your coin, which I then pay with one of mine.
Is that not a good way to make your bitcoins a little harder to track?
Then these bitcoin will still be able to track that you swapped between two or more users, but what bitcoin mixers do is that they have many inputs from lots of users and they swap the bitcoins but in this case their bitcoins is harder to track. I'm not a specialist on this but I think more actions are made in background before you receive the mixed coins.