Let's say you bought Bitcoin with KYC and withdrew. And let's say you use Electrum with public node.
Let's say that you mix the coins and receive bitcoin to address2. You open Electrum again.
The second Electrum server operator (if he wants to check the data) will know that address1 and address2 are from same wallet. If he sells this info to a chain analysis company that works together with the KYC exchange, they will know that's still you and your money, so your mixing was pointless.
And this happens no matter you've used clear net, VPN or Tor.

The only proper way to handle this is not not use public SPV servers nor blockchain explorers, instead install your own on top of your own bitcoin core.

I'll try my luck too:

____________	____	_________________________________________	_____
Binance coin	42%	https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bnb	#4
Monero	42%	https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero	#25
Dash	11%	https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/dash	#75
Golem	5%	https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/golem	#139
____________	____	_________________________________________	_____

Good luck everybody.
Thanks Halab & Ratimov!

Concurs nou, de data asta in "Games and Rounds"
De fapt este o re-editare a concursului similar pentru 2022.. dar pe care l-am ratat in iarna lui 2021.

[Contest][ALT] Best portfolio 2023
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5425124
Organizator: Halab
(la premiu participa masiv Ratimov, asadar merita mentionat)

Se poate castiga: bitcoin. (Fiind o moneda virtuala, nu voi pune poza, in regula?  )
I   : 0.0030 BTC  + 0.0270 BTC * = 0.0300 BTC
II  : 0.0015 BTC  + 0.0135 BTC * = 0.0150 BTC
III : 0.0005 BTC + 0.007 BTC * = 0.0075 BTC
Valorile cu steluta vor fi din partea lui Ratimov.

Reguli:
Iti creezi un portofoliu imaginar format din cel putin 4 monede alternative, fara bitcoin (sau wrapped bitcoin), totalizand 1000$.
Nu ai voie sa pui mai mult de 50% din portofoliu intr-o singura moneda.
Nu ai voie sa pui mai putin de 5% din portofoliu intr-o singura moneda.
Ai voie maximum un stablecoin.
Portofoliul trebuie sa contina cel putin o moneda care este dincolo de pozitia 100 pe Coingecko.

Se vor compara preturile de cumparare din 01.01.2023 cu cele de vanzare din 31.12.2023, iar persoanele carora le va fi crescut portofoliul cel mai mult vor fi castigatoare.

Restrictii:
Pot participa doar de la Member in sus (e posibil sa se schimbe daca sunt prea putini participanti)
Pana la momentul postarii persoana trebuie sa fi primit cel putin 5 merite in ultimele 120 zile.
Participantii care au primit feedback negativ de la DT in mod legitim (la latitudinea organizatorului) nu vor fi acceptati.
Bineinteles, fara conturi multiple.
Inscrierile se incheie in 30.12.2022 23.59 ora Parisului.

Pe pagina concursului se gaseste formularul de inscriere, care va fi modificat cu monedele alese.

Bafta!

It looks like they are already in trouble. Also this is off-topic here and the actual discussion goes on in [BIG LIST] Crypto Debit Cards, I recommend to continue there if anything needs to be added.


This is a good point. I'll lock it now.

VISA is no longer partner of FTX. End of story.

Wow, indeed a new negative record.
I guess that my wishful thinking that anonymous crypto cards could ever become a thing (and not a scam)... remains... wishful thinking...
Oh well... too bad...

Even more, this kind of times show why one should not invest money he doesn't afford to lose or to "leave and forget".
People needing liquidity now and forced to sell their bitcoins will most probably sell at a loss.

* I know of the mixing ChipMixer is doing (worth mentioning that I wear their paid advertising); if you want to use their services make sure you use the Tor link you'll see in their Announcement or on my signature and also make sure you read the FAQ
* I know of CoinJoin; some wallets do it, some mixers claim to do it, but it's not clear whether they use or not actual CoinJoin; some claim that CoinJoin doesn't look that much like mixed coins (hence some services may think they're not mixed), but some also claim the coins are also not shuffled that good and tracking can happen (the link is not 100% broken in this case)
* not actual mixing, but I'll tell about Monero too (privacy altcoin) since some bring it into this kind of discussions: if you go this path keep in mind that if the services you use to convert betwee Monero and Bitcoin may track you and make your effort worthless

It may be me, but I never liked random.org -based contests/raffles; there was always a chance the organizer may not play fair.
And I think that OP's point was not to generate "black box" randomness he cannot prove (and get accused he didn't do a fair draw) and instead use blockchain for obtaining in a transparent manner a "random enough" number whenever it's needed.

So imho the previous answers are explaining good some easy options OP can use. (I find the answer given by o_e_l_e_o the most complete and with good example too for easy understanding.)

If you use a good mixer it will break the link between the input money and the output, unless you use a SPV wallet and the server your wallet connects is owned by a chain analysis company, or you use a blockchain explorer linked to chain analysis.

It worth mentioning though that there are a fair number of services that consider mixed coins somewhat "tainted" and may try to confiscate that money from you for this kind of reasons. Some people do care about this, some don't, some may be knowing/avoiding them, but it's better you know this part too.

Of course, there are also P2P means of acquiring bitcoins, which may not be so easy to link to your identity.

If you look to that account's history you'll see it's used for advertising (guerilla marketing) that platform.
And since he doesn't come with a ref link, I'd say he is either part of the team, either hired for marketing.

So my bet would be that his "financial independence" will come if/when they get to cash in (ie scam) some deposits from gullible people and if he won't also get scammed with false contract/false promises.

And since this post is a good TL;DR; I'll quote it for visibility:

People have tried to convince me that NFTs are more than just some ugly drawings. They didn't convince me fully, but made me no longer be too harsh on NFT per se.
Then you come discussing exactly about such NFTs. My opinion about those? There's an image expressing it very good:


PS. I have a feeling that this topic should be in the Altcoins section. Maybe you move it there...

It won't be easy. This is only a proposal. This may change greatly in the future while all the possible (and impossible) aspects are negotiated between all the parts and parties.
Then this has become part of the national laws in all the member countries. Here it will change again, in some countries will become stronger and in others weaker.
And I will add that some European countries do better and others do (much) worse at collecting the taxes and the taxation related information.

So, depending on the country, this will become reality (or maybe it already is) and in the case of other countries it's more a "wishful thinking".


I don't say that taxation won't happen, the governments are always hungry for money. (I wish that we'll get someday to the point only active traders will get taxed, and that on the gains; but let's ignore the wishful thinking).
What I say is that really tight taxation won't happen too soon.

Not really related. Governments will always try to tax everything they can, as good as they can.
In some countries holding is taxed, in other countries only the capital gains (in fiat) are taxed.
People can hide their coins from the government, it's not that hard, but it can be seen as tax evasion and that's illegal.

Satoshi's dream was to give the right tools to avoid the banks if we want to. Taxation is, as you see, not necessarily related to this.
So Satoshi's dream didn't fail. Even more, the things are actually getting better in that direction, ie the number of entities accepting bitcoins for their goods and services is increasing.

 


Vaai, din păcate te înțeleg mult prea bine...

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Voi adăuga mai departe ceva mai degrabă ca discuție decât ca un concurs.
Puteți să vă uitați aici: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5427560.new#new

Un cineva a publicat un fel de concurs la care premiile arată cam prea generos.
Cumva sunt în dubii, nu îmi dau seama dacă se vrea concurs doar pentru clienții magazinului și deci se așteaptă ca lumea să cumpere prostii în speranța că și câștigă ceva sau este pur și simplu o țeapă.
Detalii probabil o să mai apară, așa că poate nu strică să ne mai uităm pe acolo, în caz că ideile mele inițiale sunt total greșite.

It's something to create a bootable DVD from it. And if you boot from it you'll run an antivirus.
It's not meant to "factory reset" your system. But Windows10 has options for "factory reset" too (I don't know though how good they are).
I will add that if you have a properly licensed Win10 I think that even if you do a clean re-install (and you don't set a key), Microsoft will know and make your new Win10 licensed again. (At least I've done that not long ago and on my surprise this has happened).


Good call.


Linux is also a good advice, but the starting part of only removing the browser may not help much if his system is indeed in trouble (and if one hides the problem it doesn't mean the problem is gone). Plus, although I tried to keep Firefox as main browser, it turned out that some websites (and apps) just don't work properly on Firefox (some development houses decided that testing only on Chromium is fine/enough).

If OP decides to stay on windows then indeed, an antivirus that offers real time (and URL) protection is a must. And in any case, uBlock Origin must not be missing.

A lot of fuzzy text/info there...
I start to think that this may be a contest only for the customers of that shop ie people who actually buy stuff from one of those shops, especially as the currency for that portal is that Particl coin.
If I'm wrong, OP should clear this up.

I've just read about an anonymous VISA card reloadable with crypto - USDT, USDC, ETH and some tokens: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fintech-company-zelf-launches-anonymous-visa-debit-card-with-crypto-recharge
Interestingly it's an USA company launching them (ZELF) and also interestingly (but in in a bad way) Bitcoin is not in the list of coins.

I don't know how will this go (anonymous, hmmm), if anyone will get to use this, I'd like to hear details.

Da! Îți pune în clipboard tot ce îți trebuie; când dai Paste/Lipire obții exact ce ai avea apăsând "Quote" dacă ar fi mers.
Uite un exemplu tot de acolo (dar am șters eu conținutul)

Keep in mind that any fork of Bitcoin is not bitcoin, it's just a pathetic altcoin.

So the fork coin will not be Bitcoin, they'll have an altcoin for which the value would become very low.
Just look at BCH, BSV and all other forks of bitcoin.

Of course, luckily, they'll still have their pre-fork bitcoins too and if they don't waste that, they can have the choice to get back to their senses and use the proper bitcoin they still have.

Proof? Missing again?  
You don't even check your own topic correctly, your "concern" looks more and more like spam and you want to be taken serious. Good luck with that (/s).