ChipMixer did not scam their customers
It was confirmed ChipMixer was a scam the entire time, many Bitcointalk users confirmed that their coins were stolen from the keys ChipMixer said they deleted:
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Even my chips which I had in chipmixer service for which they claimed to "delete private" keys after 7 days or whatever, were seized/transfered.
and these transactions took place good 3 months ago.
It seems that you are right, whoever had vouchers or chips was left without them.
I checked some old wallets older than 1 year that only contained chips from CM, and they were all emptied. Yes, it's a bit stupid that I didn't spend them, but honestly I forgot about a few $ in those old wallets. It's really strange that it wasn't all deleted, but now we at least know where even 7GB of data came from.
Can confirm, they stole a chip of
mine a friend of mine that he hadn't yet spent. :/
Really fucking bad practice of ChipMixer to keep private keys, not gonna lie.You shouldn't be using an exchange as a mixer, I don't know how many times I have to repeat that this month. Exchanges aren't businesses with main scope to make your coins untraceable. Pretty much the opposite. They very much keep track of what's going on, and most are likely to share it with chain analysis companies. There is even a site that lets you search to which exchange an address belongs to:
https://www.walletexplorer.com/Mixers aren't businesses with the main scope of making your coins untraceable either, they can keep track of what's going on. Only coinjoins give you the guarantee of privacy without trusting third parties.