I am doing this for fun and to learn.  I don't have a specific need right now.  I don't like the big brother aspect of government and the anonymous aspect of crypto is appealing to me.  I don't know anything about how the blockchain works but I know that people can track it.  I'm not doing anything illegal so I'm not worried, just curious.

I thought if I wanted to hold BTC without outside intervention, where could I break the tracking?  So, I started with tor, then connected to it through vpn, sent BTC from an ATM with a burner phone straight to chipmixer (first service I researched) and then imported the keys into an electrum wallet on a vps. 

Next, I was going to research alternatives for the ATM because it's expensive and for a different wallet because my thought is online is more anonymous. I have no idea though.

Also, I broke the link as you instructed.  Thanks for showing me how.


I figured out what I did.  I searched "chipmixer onion address" on DDG and the second result is the scam site. In redoing the searches, it is super obvious how many scams are out there but I trusted that review site because it felt legit.

I hope I will do better research next time. 

Good point about the insert tag. I edited to put the link in [url] tags.  Does this eliminate the ranking?

I don't think it's harsh.  I'm sure it's info I should know because I obviously got scammed.  In terms of research, of course it would have been better if I did more.  I've done the chipmixer process before but just messed up in verifying the correct address.  I'm not making any excuses and have no choice but to chalk this up to a learning experience. 

The truth is, I don't even know where it is I should look for reliable and current info.  Even your "half of all phishing sites" thread has a post suggesting to not use google and that the top results on duckduckgo can be better for well known sites. 

I quickly read through the DNM bible but think a lot of doesn't apply to me yet for what I'm exploring.  I recognize this is probably a case of "I don't even know what I don't know."

Thanks for the links.  I will read through them because I am curious.

I used duckduckgo in a tor browser.  I'm new to tor, btc and chipmixer so I'm trying to figure out how to verify links, etc. I hadn't even heard of bitcointalk until today.


Thanks for confirming but most importantly, thanks for telling me how to find the correct link.

I have used chipmixer before but the old onion address, chipmixerwzxtzbw.onion, didn't work so I looked for the new address and found:

http://chipmxrunxsv5j4ndpgab5tbo76hjncztpk5k44av32xbswm5ivaiaid.SCAM.onion/

I am questioning if I found a scam address.  I didn't notice until later but the minimum is .01 BTC, not .001 BTC.

I initially deposited .010 BTC and it was reflected on the page as so but required more funds and wouldn't let me proceed.  

I thought that might be too close so I added more and the message is now:
"0.01257699 Deposit received but is less than the current minimum required of 0.01 BTC.  Please deposit additional funds."

I emailed chipmixer 4 days ago but haven't received a response.

Did I do something wrong?