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But you are missing my point. No matter how much you mix coins, you don't know if the coins you are going to end up with, will have a criminal origin or not. Mixing coins is good to stop a trace of someone already knowing that it's you who is receiving the coins, but it is useless when it comes to protecting yourself from the bad luck lottery of ending up with tainted "criminal coins".
There's no way out but to obscure the entire blockchain somehow and I have no idea how this could be done.
But you are missing my point. No matter how much you mix coins, you don't know if the coins you are going to end up with, will have a criminal origin or not. Mixing coins is good to stop a trace of someone already knowing that it's you who is receiving the coins, but it is useless when it comes to protecting yourself from the bad luck lottery of ending up with tainted "criminal coins".
There's no way out but to obscure the entire blockchain somehow and I have no idea how this could be done.
a proper mixer won't just give you the coins they got from someone else, that would be stupid!
what happens is that when you make a deposit in a bitcoin address that a mixer gives you that money goes into a pool. pool of all the bitcoins they received and it gets mixed, there should be a lot of transactions in this and then your "literary mixed coins" come out from a new transaction to another person.
and it would be extremely hard and nearly impossible to prove these coins were ever used for whatever reason they were used for before
