I recently did an in person transaction and got paid in BTC. Honestly it wasn't anything shady but who knows where these coins were previously... So I thought to use a mixer before cashing out. I have an Uphold account for many many years and never had any issues, so I just mixed my coins with YoMix and deposited there. This was my first transaction I did in Uphold since 3 years ago and in the very next day I get this email. No other transactions were done in the meantime so it's certain this is related to YoMix.
This would mean that the address YoMix used too give me funds immedietly got detected as being connected to terrorism financing. It's well beyond me how a "bitcoin mixer's" developers could be so incompetent.
So I guess thanks YoMix for putting me on an FBI watchlist. Be warned anyone. If it's so easy for an exchange to detect a bitcoin "mixer" it sure as hell means that it's not an actual mixer.
Is it meaningless to try to explain them that you just exchanged your coins and you have no idea that your bitcoins are tagged? How can you know whether incoming coins have gone through something bad? This is something beyond your capabilities. Maybe their system did a false positive? How can they be so sure that your coins are bad?This would mean that the address YoMix used too give me funds immedietly got detected as being connected to terrorism financing. It's well beyond me how a "bitcoin mixer's" developers could be so incompetent.
So I guess thanks YoMix for putting me on an FBI watchlist. Be warned anyone. If it's so easy for an exchange to detect a bitcoin "mixer" it sure as hell means that it's not an actual mixer.
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This doesn't make any sense. Anybody can claim that your coins are bad without any reason and tell you they can't show you proofs because of confidentiality laws.Btw, did you choose max mixing level on yomix? Did you enable random amount of transactions with high service fee and some hours of transfer delay? This would increase your anonimity.
Btw mixtum.io claims to send you coins from exchanges that make you not to worry about bad funds. Mixero.io uses monero bridge and logically should offer you high anonimity. There is also a cryptomixer.io that has been on market for centuries with proven reserves of more than 2000 bitcoins and I haven't heard anyone saying bad about them.