Quote from: BenCodie on Today at 04:22:58 AM

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Usage: Using ChipMixer after using a centralized exchange to purchase bitcoin
Considerations/Questions: Is there a benefit to trading your coins from a centralized exchange for coins that may have come from malicious sources? Might using coins linked with your identity/centralized exchange open you up to risks depending on how the next person from ChipMixer uses your inputs?
Opinion: I believe that this scenario is what poses the most danger to users who might think they are becoming more private, except instead they might be opening themselves up to more risk.
Official Answer: *none yet
Community Opinions: *none yet

Again: I think you're looking at this in the wrong way. There are no "coins from malicious sources", now you're buying into the notion of taint. That believe is being sold by companies who want to convince others they need to buy their "taint identification services". It's a business model, and it's very existence is an attack on Bitcoin. All I can do is warn people not to fall for it.

It's very simple: 1BTC = 1BTC. Without that, money can't exist. You don't complain to your bank about the cocaine traces on your banknodes, do you? Money gets used by good and bad people, and the current owner can't be blamed for anything the previous owner may have done.

Quote from: BenCodie on Today at 04:22:58 AM

I myself do not use centralized exchanges nor do I condone anyone to, I condone learning p2p trading and conducting this way.

So you're saying you risk exchanging your clean Bitcoins for dirty dollars with a criminal past? Don't you see the irony in that? Wink

I've seen a complaint about an instant exchange: the deposit was frozen by the third-party exchange they used "because of taint". They claimed the user needed to go through KYC, and after that the money was magically okay again. It turned out they used Binance, and the funds were added to Binance's large wallet. Does that mean the "taint" is magically gone? Does it mean the exchange sells "tainted Bitcoins"? Or does it means there was no taint in the first place? My money is on the last scenario.