I was never confident Arsenal would become champions because they had a young inexperienced squad and I was fairly sure they would eventually collapse under the pressure of being chased by Manchester City. Guardiola does deserve credit for what he achieved but if Manchester City are found guilty of breaking financial play rules they will probably have their titles and trophies won (for the years they allegedly cheated) removed retrospectively.


Here is what the final Premier League table of the season looks like:

You could well be right but that does not mean every allegation made against 1xbut/1xbit1 is legitimate. If someone posts here claiming they were scammed they should receive some degree of sympathy but not absolute until they post evidence they were scammed and that should be the same regardless of which business/website the allegation was made against.

If they are asked to post evidence (as has been the case by various members) and they do not do it then it cannot be mandatory to support them, it is as simple as that. They can carry on with their allegation but they should not expect to be supported unless evidence is provided.

That is part of the issue, newbies end up creating accounts to specifically post about them allegedly being scammed by 1xbit/1xbit1 but they more or less never provide irrefutable evidence or solid enough to be taken seriously. Usually the victims that are serious about their allegation provide enough information via screenshots and transaction ids to at least have a credible case.

I agree, how victims find their way to this thread after they get scammed instead of finding this thread before they send their crypto (to the 1xbit/1xbit1 team) is the baffling part.

Good for you and your opinion but you should not be telling me or others which topics/companies/brands we should or should not be starting topics on. Feel free to start your threads on the topics you want to. And, I do not have a positive nor negative opinion on mixers, keep on assuming what you want it does not bother me.

In your opinion and you are welcome to believe what you want.

I have no interest in convincing you of anything, believe what you want.

Why did you not start a thread to discuss what you want already? Those that wish to participate in the discussion your thread will entail will do so without compulsion and those that wish to question your motives for doing it will do so and of course those that wish to not participate will also do so because this is a community forum and nobody can force another to do their bidding. Feel free to do it, this forum is fairly democratic in that sense.

And?

Coinomize, Wasabi, YoMix, Whirlwind and others have not been named by any government as being suspected of money laundering but Chipmixer and Blender were named in US government officials legal documentation as money launderers therefore they are automatically part of a distinction from the rest. And since evidence has been presented to show Sinbad.io is operated by the same team that operated Blender.io, it stands to reason they are probably next.

Alongside the genuine victims who find their warnings, experiences, claims and stories buried under heaps of posts there are those that are either trying somehow troll for reasons unknown or they are from competing businesses and are trying to keep negative shades on 1xbit or some other reason.

In the early days of this thread many unsubstantiated claims were made against 1xbit/1xbit1 on a regular basis one after another but many did not provide even the slightest bit of evidence to back up their accusations. Of the ones that did, 1xbit/1xbit1 claimed they would resolve them and even put out false posts with names and amounts repaid but in the end the warning to all is to just keep away from 1xbit/1xbit1 otherwise eventually you will end up writing a scam accusation here detailing how you had money stolen by them.

The effort needs to be applauded for all contributors but I am going to end up getting repetitive strain injury if I start tagging all the accounts especially if the rabbit hole leads to far more accounts than what you had first discovered 

Thank you for highlighting it. Is it safe to conclude as far as is known, these two are the only two known cases of this type?

Even if it slips under the radar it seems as though the vigilance of members (as you aptly refer to it) managed to spot it. At least he did not manage to carry on the duplicitous conduct for a considerable length of time and instead was caught out quite early on.

Now he will have to create or buy another account and then go through the process of trying to rank up before being considered for joining signature campaigns. In the end he must be wondering whether it was worth it in the end for short term gain.

I would advise some caution here as the claim by the OP against Exodus was not proven categorically and only limited evidence was posted but if we say the claim was genuine and the return of funds were genuine, it seems the OP will not be returning to the forum because he achieved the ultimate goal of getting his money back.

I had hoped to read more from the OP surrounding what happened with regards to the return of funds and the circumstances surrounding it but it looks as though that will never be known now.

Guardiola employed excellent tactics against Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League, that cannot be denied therefore full credit to him but for an in-depth comment and discussion regarding the Champions League please use the dedicated thread ⚽ FOOTBALL: UEFA Champions League 2022/23

Let us not forget before the Champions League final they will participate in the first ever all-Manchester FA Cup final and for discussion related to that please use the dedicated FA Cup thread ⚽ ENGLISH FA CUP 2022/23 TOURNAMENT - Discussion Thread

This is also the first time I have heard about anything like this happening. Wearing a signature to get paid from one campaign and then to swap it with another to get paid from a second one. Has anything like this ever happened before?

What are the chances it is already happening but has gone unnoticed by the majority of members here?

I think this would be a good idea as you are right, it will reduce the number of spammers and time wasters. If it were a pre-condition stated in the OP and if after that being made known publicly applicants applied without posting a Note it would clearly define them as not even bothering to read the requirements. Hhampuz could save a lot of time doing it that way.

These are another excellent set of reasons to be added to potential reason there are retention issues within the forum. The truth of the matter is that we will most probably never know or understand in full why the forum failed to retain huge numbers of new members but when reading through the possibilities being posted, it is clear a combination of reasons and/or events play their part.

This Wired.com interview and article regarding Sinbad.io was interesting on several levels including the fact the owner/operator of Sinbad mixer categorically refused to answer the question when asked if Sinbad.io was a relaunch post-branding of the now defunct Blender.io

"Elliptic" is a crypto tracing company that provided evidence to backup a link between Blender and Sinbad and since Blender was already on the radar of the US law officials because they faced allegations of money laundering huge amount, therefore the thread was related to Sinbad. Had allegations in the Wired.com article had been made against Coinomize, Wasabi, YoMix, Whirlwind or others I would have created the same thread but altered the name from Sinbad to the other.

It is as simple as this: Blender was shut down because of money laundering allegations and the owner/operator is wanted by US investigators to face criminal charge. Strong evidence has been put forward by a crypto tracing company that Blender.io was relaunched as Sinbad.io therefore in my opinion the chances are the next mixer to be shutdown will be Sinbad as it is already linked to criminal activity conducted during the previous carnation which was Blender.io

I was hoping for a wider intellectual debate rather than those that have posted with ulterior motives therefore I am locking this thread as some here have missed the point entirely and tried to take the thread deliberately to a different direction when any member including you and I should not be stifled in our comments just because of wearing one particular set of signatures or avatars. If that were the case, all those wearing gambling/gaming or crypto exchange signatures and so on should not be allowed to post comments related to competitors as each and every time a conflict of interest will be falsely cited and that mindset is unacceptable in what should be thriving free speech forum.

Chipmixer was very lucrative and that was why the campaign thread was flooded with pages upon pages of applicants as soon as there were slots available. As mentioned earlier, I applied (around 3 times) and was overlooked therefore stopped applying.

Can you imagine how difficult carrying out this process manually would be and how simple it would be if it were possible to automate it?

If there was evidence of this happening it would be

There was also the matter of alleged alt-accounts participating in the Chipmixer campaign. I have to agree with you, some members that were both advocates of Chipmixer and also posting regularly to meet the income threshold have gone quiet but if they no longer need to meet those requirements to earn a signature campaign participation income and can earn a weekly amount by posting less then they will as with most members that would probably be the driving factor of their presence here.

There was a link posted some time back where a forum staff member stated words to that effect. I need to try to find it as it confirmed what you cited as a rumour to be true.

The squad that Manchester City possess should be enough for them to win both finals but as usual Guardiola will be tampering and tinkering with his methods in an attempt to outsmart the opposing team manager but it usually backfires. If Manchester United win it will mean Manchester City face Inter Milan with caution and that will simply compel Inter Milan to go on and win. If however Manchester City win the FA Cup final they will go in to the Champions League final full of confidence.

With these two final games of the season remaining and keeping in mind the strength they have within their squad, I cannot see fatigue playing a part in the Manchester City team. There will be added stress and pressure because they are in a position where they could win the treble and that could be the reason they fail if they find the expectation being too much of an obstacle.

I am sure Manchester City will go in to the games with the belief they will win them but they will not take it for granted because if they lose they will lose a chance of making history at the club. There is no pressure on Manchester United and Inter Milan, all the pressure is on Manchester City.

I have the same sentiments, I think eventually mixing will be portrayed as being synonymous with criminal activity and that false narrative will be pushed out by those that wish to control the agenda. Yes mixers can be used for criminal activity but does not they will. but there might be some sort of radical transformation or implementations which could theoretically keep certain mixers out of trouble but it depends on how law enforcement agencies approach it in conjunction with mixers.



It certainly was a general question and that debate is twisted somewhat by those that see me wearing a signature and overlook the question raised. You are right it is a silly argument against crypto but those that are putting out false information on a regular basis by equating criminal activity to crypto are simply hiding ulterior motives. Like fiat can be used for nefarious purposes crypto can be too but that does not mean it is specifically a tool for criminals.

If those that have become super-rich because of crypto get together to put forward an alternative view that is being projected against crypto then they could help manage the way crypto is talked about in political circles including the all-important financial departments. If lawmakers get a real understanding of what Bitcoin and other crypto are then they will be far more better placed to make the safest and best decisions.

That is true, either they get financial penalties or bad headlines but hardly ever are there criminal cases against banks and when there are there is little to no talk about them being shut down. The problem Sinbad faces is different to competing mixers because none have been accused of being previously associated with Blender and that makes the difference here.

You can as many questions as you like

If Sinbad is operated by the Blender team but Coinomize, YoMix and Whirlwind (and others) are not, then the chances are the others will last longer than Sinbad.

I cannot add more to what you wisely posted other than my opinion that all mixers are most probably being watched by various law enforcement agencies and the moment serious criminal activity is detected they will be shutdown.
 

No offence taken  

Unlike the Blender and Chipmixer websites, Whirlwind has not been seized or forced to shutdown. Also, to my knowledge Whirlwind have not been accused of money laundering by any law enforcement agency nor is their owner/operator the subject of an international arrest warrant. Having said that, criminals will use anything that is available for conducting (or trying to conduct) criminal acts.

As an example, just because banks can be used for money laundering does not mean everybody using their services will launder money and as long as the banks have mechanisms in place to either reduce, minimise or eliminate the risk of illegal activity by the owner/operator they will end up escaping serious criminal charges as they do not want to fall in to illegal activity. If a case was made against a bank they could fight a lawsuit against a governmental agency to show they implemented various rules to prevent criminal activity. I think exchanges do the same, they blacklist addresses that have passed on them by law enforcement agencies and are obligated to seize funds to hand over various data to those agencies.

A test case for a mixer in a Court of law will be thoroughly informative. It will become interesting if we ever see a legal defence by the Chipmixer owner/operator or the Blender-Sinbad owner/operator (if either get arrested and presented before a Court).

Yes he seems confident but he refused to answer the question when it was put to him if Blender and Sinbad were related.

The connection was made with a lot of proof, it is much more than a rumour.

The article in Wired was specific to Blender and Sinbad therefore the thread however if I find one where an allegation has been made against another mixer (regardless of their name) I will not hesitate to post about it.

No

I found no article about Whirlwind that alluded to them being a criminal enterprise. As far as I am aware the Whirlwind team have not been accused of money laundering and have not been accused of being being behind Blender.

No

Where is the negative spin? I created a thread to post a link to Wired.com

I have almost zero interest in Chipmixer and anything related to them including who used them and during which time periods. Also, I never used their service. I did apply maybe 3 times to join their signature campaign but was overlooked therefore stopped applying. Only the law enforcement agencies will be able to state their reasons for the investigation in to Chipmixer, I have no idea how long criminals used it for.

Guardiola had no choice but to save his best players for the final two games of a very long season. If Manchester City win the FA Cup final they will go in to the Champions League final with an immense belief they will win the treble.

Personally I think it will end up being a case of them losing the FA Cup final in a close game and they will lose the Champions League badly final because Inter Milan might not control the bulk of the possession but they will be more effective in front of goal.

Is it true Sinbad is operated by the same person that created Blender? Crypto tracing company "Elliptic" have stated with conviction that the evidence is very strong.

After Chipmixer, Is Sinbad.io Next To Be Shutdown?