I’m just wondering - some of us like to boost our privacy, and one way is by using mixers (CoinJoin, Tornado, etc.) or other tools that hide transaction trails. On the surface, that looks fine, since we’re only trying to make our transactions more private.
But here’s the problem: casinos are regulated. Regulators often flag mixer-related addresses as “high risk” or even “suspicious.” So if you withdraw your winnings to a mixer, it could backfire with the following problem.
1- Casino freezes your funds.
2- Withdrawals get delayed.
3- Or worse, your winnings get withheld in the name of “compliance.”
So the question is, does using a mixer put us at risk when dealing with casinos? Are we better off keeping privacy tools away from gambling wallets, or should we expect casinos to respect privacy since this is crypto in the first place?
I’d like to hear from those who have actual experience, have you ever had a withdrawal blocked or delayed just because you routed it through a mixer? Or do casinos not care as long as your account is verified?
I'm not sure that mixer discussion is allowed here, even in general terms - definitely not seen it referred to for a long time. If a mixer is any good then surely it should be giving you a unique address for you to send over payments and it would be pretty much impossible for a casino to know what entity generated it. I've not used a mixer before, but are you suggesting that they share the same address for a large group of users? How to they distinguish incoming funds and make sure the outgoing ends up at the right place? If your Bitcoin wallet is not hosted on an exchange then it shouldn't be much of an issue for you to receive funds that way, as you can create as many receiving addresses as you want and is probably safer than involving a third party mixer.