Hi,

I am very new to Bitcoin and just learning a lot of the terminology and technologies which make it run. I see in the services forum there are a lot of Bitcoin Mixers, I know what they are for but I was wondering exactly how they worked?

Ideally, you would send your BTC to the mixer and it would forward you on the same amount - fee from a completely separate transaction chain of Bitcoins so that it cant be traced, but in reality, can it work like that unless the mixer has a lot of BTC. If the Mixer has little BTC or is new they might not have funds on another chain to send to you and then they just forward your BTC back to you which has the same trail.

Could someone explain if that is likely the case in this scenario? or are there other technologies at work here?