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What are some good free ways to Launder/Mix/Anonymize/clean  your bitcoins?

I have no idea how to do those things but I can say that you have a very clever username!

(Mine's not very clever; I basically found it attached to me shortly after I was born.)

Read about Escrow, third-person users.
f.ex. Your money -> Third person 1 -> Third person 2 -> Your second account

Blockchain.info's Mixer (http://blockchain.info/wallet/send-anonymously) is considered the best way to mix your coins.

As far an anonymizing, you should install TOR as a service and then enable SOCKSv5 in your client to use localhost:9050.

I suggest Tide.

That's clever! If I understand you correctly, you're saying that the Bitcoin client can run through Tor and hop through a bunch of hoops before landing in Bitcoinland?

(Is there a better word than "Bitcoinland" to describe the legions of Bitcoin service providers?)

Yes, Bitcoin can surf the dark web. There is credible evidence that there are about as many nodes in the dark as there are in the light.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I've tried Tor and I2P and poked around a bit in the "pseudo-TLD" sites (.onion and .i2p). I didn't see much of i2p because everything seemed to be missing. As for Tor, it has some neat stuff going on but in a way it feels to me like a ghost town. Maybe I'm just getting a weird view on it. However, I wouldn't imagine that the dark net is the same size as the regular web.

Have I misunderstood what you were saying?

That article looks interesting! Thanks for the link!

Yes, I was referring to the number of persistent bitcoin nodes on TOR versus the number of persistent number of nodes visable on the open Internet. If you have the skills, you could set up a bitcoin client to only connect to other nodes via TOR.  I wouldn't be surprised to discover that there is a .onion address for a major online wallet service, or a wallet service entirely within TOR.

I couldn't tell you if such a service existed on Tor. I'm exploring that as well as Bitcoin. I find it hard to figure out just what's in there, in Torland. I know I haven't seen a wallet service, though of course there are plenty of sites that take BTC.

You'r welcome  :)

You can pay for a proper mixing service like blockchain or torfog but then it is obvious that your money is going into and out of a mixing service.

I recommend finding a site with a large userbase that uses a common wallet. Poker sites like Seals With Clubs and wallet services like instawallet will almost always give you back different coins than you put in.

I would recommend: your wallet -> site with shared wallet -> mixing service -> site with shared wallet -> your new wallet.

Don't put more than a little into any of these services at any given time.

The Hidden Wiki has a few links to some bitcoin laundering sites. I can't tell you what the fees were, but the links are there.

There was a wallet service on TOR. They ran with the deposits (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112327.0).

Interesting thread :)

Will google more on tor and bitcoins now ;)

send them to me

Why need cleaning? I thought btc is anon network, and they better can track you only when you exchange btc's to your lr or other cashout. And better use vpn or vps for ip-hidding or mule-drop  8).

you can also send them to 17NPvZvyfCH4ezSVamB7qfYG3wSPHTLNbf - fully anonymous...

 ;D

Although addresses are not tied to a name or person, when you send out a transaction, your IP address can be tied to it. If you search for your IP on blockchain.info (http://blockchain.info/), you will probably see quite a few of your transactions, and of course geolocation could prove useful to people here too. Using SOCKSv5 over TOR makes it so that others you are trading with won't know your IP address, nor can an ISP (who knows your name from your IP) tie you to your addresses.