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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin mixing is NOT money laundering, per se
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 06/05/2023, 20:41:45 UTC
If necessary, you will be deanonymized not by the peer-to-peer payment passed through the mixer, but by the context of the payment.
I don't want to reveal the origins of my coins, some of which come from this very forum, and this is enough to have them sent in a mixer. I don't understand for what context are you talking about.

And using a mixer, you only attract additional attention to yourself, advertising that you are hiding something.
I am hiding something. The origins of my coins. It's information I don't feel confident to have it publicly available at any time.

You can deceive yourself as much as you like, but anonymity and privacy are a myth in the modern world.
You either accept that, and let everyone scrutinize your life, or you live normally, obviously with part of your privacy violated by big corps, but not by every individual who has access to the blockchain. Do I need to remind you we're talking about public ledger here?

If you want to make an anonymous payment, it's much more reasonable to use a monero-type blockchain that was initially closed than to try to obfuscate the trail in a public ledger like bitcoin
No, it's exactly the same thing. Using Monero means you want on-chain privacy. It not reasonable to distinguish it, as it's essentially a protocol with continuous and mandatory mixing, similar to making coinjoins.