Bitcoin, Privacy, Mixers

[Lucius]

Top mixer is paying 5 years now lots of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin every month to be appeared in every thread of this forum. If that isn't aggressive advertising, I really don't know what it is. 

I wouldn't call it aggressive, but just well-thought-out and long-term sustainable advertising through this forum, in such a way that they found a winning formula that consists of several dozen participants and a price that CM can afford to pay every week/month. Most of the other mixers and sig campaigns have a different approach, which consists of campaigns that don't last long enough, not to mention that they don't have enough top posters to bring them the desired results.

Also, the rule "you must post at least xx posts per week" does not contribute to anything else, but only more spam - which is also part of a bad strategy that many apply.

[soramon]

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have given users greater financial privacy, which has led to the growth of businesses that specialize in obfuscating cryptocurrency transactions, such as mixers. While it is unclear how mixers make their money, it is likely that they charge a fee for their services, and their most probable clients are individuals or organizations who value financial privacy, including high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or criminal enterprises. Nevertheless, the use of mixers is not limited to illegal activities, and some users may opt for them to safeguard their financial privacy. With regards to the protection of users' personal information, it is unlikely for domain hosts to sell such data to third parties without users' consent. Domain hosts must comply with data privacy laws that restrict sharing users' information without their explicit consent. However, users should be aware of their domain hosts' privacy policies and take precautionary measures such as using privacy-focused email providers and encrypting their data

[BenCodie]

While I am still not sure if the positives outweigh the negatives with mixers, I can agree that it is great that Bitcoin enables privacy that otherwise no one would have in the day of today. Could you imagine how entrapped we would all be if there were no other option except for the banking system?