So, to sum up. If a service:
- is taking property and returning roughly the same property,
- advertises itself as providing privacy,
- requires user to forfeit custody of coins,
- and does not collect KYC
is illegal in this forum.
Really sad turn of events for the Bitcoin forum.
Examples of things that are not banned mixers include exchangers (unless they have a mixing function), CoinJoin-supporting non-custodial wallets, and Monero.
If a non-KYC exchanger converts your BTC to XMR, is that considered legal or illegal in-forum? I'm confused.
I would think 1a says that it would be an incidental use of the exchange so it would be fine.
But, I can also see this being a slippery slope and having more exchanges that just do
->XMR advertised.
Shrug, it is what it is. We don't have to like it but it's theymos's house so his rules.