Bitmixer is now closed. Great news for ChipMixer! I'm wondering how the traffic towards chipmixer will be now that BM is closed, and I wish there was a way to track it. Either way, as sad as it is to see such a huge name disappear from the privacy aspect of mixing coins, this could potentially have some amazing positive effects on bitmixer. Good luck, chipmixer!
The news is not that great for a few reasons.
First, due to unexpected amount of traffic, all prepared chips were withdrawn (there were not enough for this demand), which means that some of you may have received less chips and a voucher for a missing sum. If you are one of those, you can now use your voucher. Why is it bad? Because chips you will withdraw now will be created after deposit which is one of the reasons why ChipMixer gives more privacy than other mixers. In this case, due to traffic, we could not offer that to you.
Second, if your competition stops for an unknown reason then it is never a good sign. They say it was a change of heart. Probably not true. But they did not do an exit scam so that is not big lie.
Why BitMixer left? If you check the news, you know that two big darknet markets were shut down by law enforcement. Both markets were protected by Tor and yet servers were located and one of them was made honeypot. An owner of one of the markets had four luxury cars and lot of money so everybody was asking - why keep risking a good life to provide darknet service? BitMixer owners probably asked it themselves and the answer was - it is not worth it anymore.
Today was a bad day for online privacy and bitcoin users. Thank you BitMixer for your work, you will be missed.
Big time for Chipmixer is coming!
After closing Bitmixer you can now bite a really big piece of cake!
Lets hope we will not choke on that cake.