[banned mixer] REVIEW
Bitcointalk username: Potato Chips
Initial ThoughtsWebsite looks clean and professional-looking. Glad to see the team was able to integrate dark theme immediately. I went through the website’s nooks to see if they work as intended and they all responded well except for the video on the homepage-- I even tried it on clearnet with my content blockers turned off and nothing played. I guess there is no video.
Another thing I noticed is the big/inflated claims which I’m not a fan of.
1. “Absolute safety and reliability” (ANN thread) - mixers are in a grey area hence I would never think of them with absolute safety and reliability.
2. “most reliable Bitcoin Mixer and Tumbler service in the crypto world” - self-explanatory
3. “Many positive customer reviews on forums speak about [banned mixer]’s reliability and solid reputation.” - if this was true, it would have shown in bitcointalk as it’s no understatement it’s one of the go-to place for advertising mixers.
MIXINGFirst mix setup:
- Basic
- Tor Browser
- 2 receiving addresses
- 2 hours 6/7 mins delay
- 0.43% set fee
- 62.76% and 37.24% allocation
Let’s talk about some quality of life features first!
Onto the visuals, I was on dark mode and the colors came out nicely. I really liked how each addresses were color-coded during the mix process, it made things a lot easier to follow.
There’s also a valid address checker as I tried typing random characters and mistyping one character each address. All instances returned a greyed out ‘Continue’ button. To improve this, I would suggest showing an “invalid address” error next time so it’s more clear for the end user.
I also noticed that there is an order ID so I copied the entire URL, abruptly closed my browser, shut down my PC and came back after an hour or two. Voila, I was still able to restore my session. A small suggestion would be to make the order ID a bit more obvious, add a one click button ‘copy to clipboard’ button and perhaps a separate field to enter order IDs in order to restore session.
The sliders are really nice to look at and works well however I think an optional manual input of figures would be nice as well since the process would be a lot easier that way.
Onto the mixing, I was playing with the sliders and it was surprising how my setup garnered strong anonymity level despite the addresses having almost the same delay.
Next step was the terms and conditions. Naturally, I read it and found the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES and COIN FILTERING" clause very concerning. If I have to be honest, having my transactions analyzed by a who-knows-who third party would be a deal breaker as these parties are typically designed to fetch more information about the users which obviously does not blend well with privacy enhancing services like mixers.
"The Service" may carry out verification and control of illegal activities with the help of a third party under a contract. "The Service" may terminate Your access to "The Service" with immediate effect for any reason - including, but not limited to, illegal or prohibited activities, at its sole discretion, and is not obligated to reveal the details of its decision.
You accept that "The Service's" decision to take certain actions, including termination for any reason at its sole discretion, may be based on confidentiality criteria that are necessary for "The Service's" security protocols and risk management. You accept "The Service" is not obligated to reveal to you the particularities of its security and risk management processes.
Onto the deposit process! I was once again surprised as my deposit address wasn't native segwit which is a bummer as that save some fee as well.
Further, I got the letter of guarantee file well which has all the needed information. Consequently, I went to verify this with electrum and it returned “signature verified”.
I set an alarm before the timers hit 0 and can affirm I got the bitcoins in a matter of seconds after the timers hit zero. I checked the coins on the block explorer, unfortunately, all the address involved aren’t native segwit hence the other end could make a good assumption on what is the change address.
At the last part, I had an option to destroy my session so I took that, hit refreshed and got an error. As a just in case, I came back after some hours to access my destroyed session and had the same error. It worked well.
A small suggestion would be to add an optional feature to automatically destroy the session once the bitcoins have been sent out.
Second mix setup:
- Premium
- Firefox incognito
- 2 receiving address
- 30 mins and 144 mins delay
- 3.60% set fee
- 32.21% and 67.79% allocation
The same as last time, the nitty bitty bits worked well. After sending my deposit, mixer was able to detect it in a matter of seconds, once confirmed, it was able to detect it in the same manner as well. I've only checked the calculator accuracy this time and I got the same figures once the mixer detected my deposit.
Sad to say, my deposit address is still in P2SH format and all the addresses involved in my second mix were of that type as well.
Furthermore, the change address from my first mix was used for my second mix
As I said before, the terms of service is really a deal breaker for me so I don't think this is something I'd keep on using. I'll keep an eye on the thread though since it does seem like Royse is planning to do couple more batches of reviews and tumbler plans to incorporate ideas from members along the way. We'll see...
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