I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure someone would need more evidence than "judge, he sent 500 bucks to ChipMixer" to get a case going against you and me, no?

If this is the case.  Will any Monero user be considered a money launderer?  Will this work retroactively or will they just now start taking down any Mixing service they can get a hold of.  If they take any action against Chip Mixer USERS and promoters, this will be extremely, extremely dangerous to us.  Because this means we are all going to probably take a hit at some point and be targeted.  I mean.  This means they are coming after any body who wants just Privacy.  This is nothing about money laundering.  This is a hit on freedom!

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The phrase says only that he facilitated money laundering. It does not say that all those who used the service did so for that purpose.

This type of observation is highly exaggerated and does not reflect the truth about known facts.

Through this conduct, Nguyễn has allegedly facilitated the laundering of approximately $3 billion USD worth of Bitcoin.

Through this conduct, Nguyễn has allegedly facilitated the laundering of approximately $3 billion USD worth of Bitcoin.

I’m sorry. I tried to get the word out that this was coming. I posted about how ChipMixer was being targeted and would be shut down but their signature spam team tried to demonize me for it, distrusting me in the trust network and insulting me to try and get me to stay quiet. In my opinion, you should be upset with the people who advertised this service to you, not law enforcement for shutting down a very obviously illegal service.

Answering your question though… What you can do is make better decisions. Learn from this and don’t use publicly documented money laundering operations thinking they’re safe or rely on 3rd parties to protect your privacy or finances.

I think you totally change the context of seizing ChipMixer. Like the way you said LE stole your money. Instead CM was seized because it was involved in illegal activities like money laundering.  And regarding to your money, i can say maybe if you find a way to prove your assets as legal ones and prove them that it was not involved in money laundering, like i am not a financial expert or lawyer but i think if you successfully prove them that your money was totally legit and you paid taxes then something could be done.

But this is so unlikely to be happen because btc is the first danger to those LE's banking systems. So why would they help you in getting your money back. I can say, remaining off the radar might save you bucks because i do not think mixer got any mechanism to prove from where those transactions are coming like the exact one and involvement of you could cause your more harm. (Just a tip nothing more).

Unfortunately "LE" around the world does not care for privacy. In fact, they put financial privacy on the same scale as money laundering. If you lost coins in CM, the best lesson you can take is that you should not trust a centralized service.

When was the bc1 key transition announced?
To be clear, you suggest that the LE did not move funds on addresses starting with "1" but only in "bc1". What about addresses starting with "3", did chip mixer ever had these?

I've read about Chipmixer's end. Terrabytes of data could've saved chip mix history. Did they use paypal for hosting ?

i dont mind much because i never used CM anyways but this is a good hint that they probably have a full backend log of all private keys, in that case we can at least be sure of a backup from 2019+


Chipmixer probably didnt keep its promises regarding of destroying the session after 7 days with a full private key wipe.


However, if a future invastigation will be made, its really hard to trace transactions to its final destination and reveal its real purporse, because every jurisdiction has limited ressources to even make onchain analysis and if so, they will most likely pass the small ones and try to focus on the big transfers.

it can hit some users maybe in the next years, if any logs or storage of users data are still kept in the destination services like : exchangers, Paid services in any kind of branch ( billings, casino etc ).

Most of them especially in EU are kept of between 5-7 years of the LAST transaction made in that financial year.


finally some topic to discuss about beside those typical bull and bear market 

Yes.. you already posted that information once  (like 8 hours ago.. at the time of this post... here).. .

Do you have some kind of a theory or hypothesis?  

Apparently you must have something, otherwise you wouldn't have had brought it up.  


You don't seem like a spring chicken.  #justsaying



What's your attempt at an "explanation?"  Anything?