The reality is this:
Let's be honest. At the moment, the darknet exists and will continue to exist. And moreover, to progress. Let's say the goal of any government is to eliminate one well-established and large-scale darknet site. However, according to all the canons of ancient mythology, in fact, three more sites are formed in its place, similar to it, but only more immoral and selfish. The mixing services market has already been formed and it's not going anywhere. The war declared by the Governments of various countries is futile. It cannot be defeated by the methods that are used against our services. Bans won't work. The stricter the punishment, the more profitable this industry will be. In view of the banal minimization of supply, by eliminating the huge and influential "players" of this industry. We felt this from our personal experience after the liquidation of Sinbad. Since after this incident, the amount of funds coming into our service has increased. This forum is a discipline for all of us (Bitcoin mixer operators). It is here that we answer with our "head" for every flaw or unpleasant situation. It is here that we publish and keep all users informed about updates or various technical services. This is where we build our reputation. This is where the victim can report fraud to any service. And such a huge community with incalculable influence will do everything in relation to this fraudulent service so that no one else uses it. By depriving us, honest and stagnant players of this forum - you will create chaos, in which many unscrupulous fraudulent and clonal bitcoin mixers will surface. And uninformed users will constantly come across these "bayonets". Fraud and irresponsible provision of such services will grow exponentially.
Our major predecessors, such as: Bitcoin Fog, Bitmixer, Bitblender, ChipMixer, Tornado cash and Sinbad, put a lot of effort into popularizing Bitcoin mixer services. And judging by the publicly available figures that appeared in the turnover of these services (billions of dollars), the market successfully accepted this. And this bitcoin mixer industry is now an integral part of our modern life in the crypto space.
We are well aware that the forum administrator may be scared due to the fact that this forum also promotes services that are more or less related to the darknet. But this does not mean that it is necessary to completely eradicate this segment from the crypto industry in this community right away.
You might as well ban casinos, KYC-free exchangers, decentralized exchanges, exchanges that also do not require KYC, and others... After all, they are all in demand among criminals, including.
Moreover, we believe that the imposition of sanctions on Sinbad by governments is a unique political case. Since there is a pattern in all those cases when the authorities resorted to the elimination of bitcoin mixers. This is the connection with North Korea:
Blender - was connected with North Korea.
Tornado cash - was connected with North Korea.
Sinbad - was connected with North Korea.
So we will venture to assume that the connection of the service with darknet sites is a secondary reason why the service will be sanctioned.
At the end of our appeal, we want to summarize our thoughts and vision on this matter:
History is cyclical. If we leave the market (honest mixers who are responsible for their business, working tirelessly for many months, years, constantly improving) - irresponsible bitcoin mixers will come in our place, driven solely by a thirst for personal and short-term profit (yes, we are talking about fraud). Or about deliberate draining of confidential customer data, etc.
We promote and offer freedom to everyone. It is in the current realities and under certain circumstances: it is achieved precisely by gaining confidentiality.
Freedom is a value that allows anyone to freely express their thoughts and build their personal life at their discretion. It is the foundation for the development of society and ideas in general. But it also has another side of the coin, namely, its abuse for selfish purposes. But should we abandon such an ideology just because it has some side effect from time to time?
Our opinion is no.
Several trusted users of the forum recommended that we "repurpose" in order to avoid this ban. Our response:
No, we are not going to change anything related to the concept of our tool. PureMixer.io It was built the way it is. Under no circumstances will we change our vision and principles regarding this. After spending a lot of time on research and analysis, we came to the conclusion: that the concept of traditional (classical) mixing is the best of all existing ones. And we have described to you only a small part of why we think so.:
We offer cryptotransaction anonymization services based on classical (traditional) mixing. To date, most bitcoin mixers use CoinJoin technology or are somehow indirectly (as they themselves claim) connected with it. Which is not good due to the fact that for many years analytical companies have used and continue to use many tools and countermeasures against this technology, such as CoinJoin Sudoku and others. A certain number of mixers are running on the basis of the Jambler platform, which is also not good. Since the operators of such bitcoin mixers cannot guarantee with 100% confidence to their users anything, for example, the most important thing - privacy, since the service is far from being 100% subject to them, because such mixers will be produced on the Jambler infrastructure.
Telegram for support?
I haven't extensively read their privacy policy, but I am very skeptical about that app. To me, it's like a ticking time bomb. Let say you were in sinbad situation and the law enforcement was combing through all corners for evidence and information about the person behind the mixer and the customers. What would stop them from reaching out to the Telegram team for the information and logs?
Hi, thanks for the question.
1) We are the only ones in the industry whose service offers as many as 3 channels of secure external communication with our team.
2) Nothing prevents the user from creating a "secret chat" in telegram before contacting us directly, in which E2E encryption takes effect, which provides a high level of security. All information in such chats is encrypted on the sender's device and is only decrypted on the recipient's device. No one, not even the Telegram developers, has access to the content of the messages. + in addition, Telegram released an update on December 6, 2022, which made registration in the messenger available without a physical SIM card. (below we will provide a link to this update so that you and everyone can familiarize themselves with it more thoroughly.)
3) We have never encouraged users to contact us exclusively via Telegram. We only gave users a choice and that's all. We will be happy to give customers feedback as soon as possible on any of these three communication channels.
https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0?setln=enWith care, PureMixer team