Re: Mixers to be banned

I am a strong believer in the right to privacy (even if some people take it what I believe to be too far), and a centralized mixer has the potential to enhance privacy. Also, however, mixers have the potential to give nothing more than the illusion of privacy and highlight your transactions to governments and other nosy people.

I agree. Anyone who uses a mixer should consider that they might be a honeypot. And that's why it makes little sense for a real criminal to put these services above Monero and coinjoins, which are trustless.

There tends to be a good amount of coin that flows through the various mixers originating from criminal activity. This is why governments have employed resources into shutting down mixers and finding their operators.

I think most of the coins that flow through mixers are from petty scammers and signature spammers who are taking precautions to cover up their own shady activity in order for it to continue. Not so much criminals trying to hide bank heists. This is why I think the government has been reactive to mixers thus far. Whenever a major theft in crypto takes place and is routed through a mixer, they go after the mixer and shut it down immediately. This is how I was able to warn people about ChipMixer weeks before the shutdown happened. It was very obvious... Centralized solutions will obviously never solve the privacy problem. People making claims otherwise do so because they're paid shills. Period.