After Sinbad, which mixer is Next To Be Shutdown?

[Myleschetty]

Simple question, difficult answer.
Many mixers are active on Bitcointalk but how long will each one last?
Seems to be just a matter of time until we'll have our next mixer shutdown.

Pick your one, which is next!

Did you mean we should pick only from those ones active here?

Any centralized mixer is allowed to pick. No matter if it's from Bitcointalk or not.

No one can tell which crypto mixer will be next to shut down since the cryptocurrency tumbler is acknowledged by FinCen and the only crypto mixer that deals with the mixing of dirty/bad fund are shut down.
In the future to prevent crypto mixers from troubling the authority they will increase the time to do some background checks on their customer. I'm saying this due to how abusive leads to KYC in crypto casinos.

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[PX-Z]

Such question sounds like what exchange will be hacked next.

Either way, it's not a question which, but when. Because once those hackers used any exchange to mix their hacked coins, mixer will also be tagged for money laundering and it's the end of them.

That's why mixers need to think about it and should block all address that was tagged as hackers address for them to operate longer.

[Darker45]

Of course, it's hard to tell which particular mixer would be the next to bite the dust, but one surely will. There are probably two factors. First, if a mixer becomes the clear winner in the competition among mixers and becomes bigger than the rest, it will surely be the hottest target. Chipmixer was probably the biggest when it was taken down. Sinbad started small, rose through the ranks, and probably reached the top of the food chain as well. Second, for whatever reason, if a mixer becomes the choice of the likes of Lazarus and other criminal groups, surely it will be taken down swiftly.

[joniboini]

In the future to prevent crypto mixers from troubling the authority they will increase the time to do some background checks on their customer. I'm saying this due to how abusive leads to KYC in crypto casinos.

I wonder who will use them then. I guess the average joe won't have a problem with chain analysis, but I don't think they will survive long enough since it is unlikely that they will attract big customers. Any privacy enthusiast would use coinjoin or other options if that is the norm imo. On the other hand, they don't have to explicitly tell the public and just work together with the government if profit is still the goal. CMIIW.

[EarnOnVictor]

Simple question, difficult answer.
Many mixers are active on Bitcointalk but how long will each one last?
Seems to be just a matter of time until we'll have our next mixer shutdown.

Pick your one, which is next!

Did you mean we should pick only from those ones active here?

Any centralized mixer is allowed to pick. No matter if it's from Bitcointalk or not.

In this case, still, I can't guarantee the actual one that will pack up next, but one thing that is sure is that m!xers by virtual of their mode of operation, will always run into trouble. There is no way more illegal dealings will not be added to their operations whether they know of it or not.

Come to think of it, m!xers can't be good for our society, a service that makes transactions untreatable, does one think that evildoers will not happen to use that service often? Also, do not forget that some of those evildoers will knowingly set up their mixing service to hide under it and deliberately move their illicit funds, that's even as they also make more money from its direct service.

[Synchronice]

As far as I know, there is no mixer targeted on individual level. Usually a good indicator of which mixer is going to be shutdown next, is to read articles. If there is an article about particular mixer, i.e. money was laundered through X mixer, then X mixer will be the next to be shutdown. There were articles about Chipmixer and it got shutdown, then there were articles about Sinbad and it got shutdown too. At the moment, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network tries to label bitcoin mixers as a primary money laundering concern, i.e. it will be absolutely illegal for any crypto mixer to exist and it will also be illegal to mix your coins.

Mark my words, we will see an article about particular bitcoin mixer and that mixer will be the next to be shutdown! At the moment there are safe (I know it's still bold to say).

[coin-investor]

As far as I know, there is no mixer targeted on individual level. Usually a good indicator of which mixer is going to be shutdown next, is to read articles. If there is an article about particular mixer, i.e. money was laundered through X mixer, then X mixer will be the next to be shutdown. There were articles about Chipmixer and it got shutdown, then there were articles about Sinbad and it got shutdown too. At the moment, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network tries to label bitcoin mixers as a primary money laundering concern, i.e. it will be absolutely illegal for any crypto mixer to exist and it will also be illegal to mix your coins.

Mark my words, we will see an article about particular bitcoin mixer and that mixer will be the next to be shutdown! At the moment there are safe (I know it's still bold to say).

I agree there will be a leak on the news before the takedown, all mixers right now are suspects until the money launderers choose them to be their next mixing sites, and unless the mixer has parameters to prevent hackers and money launderers from using their platforms, the mixers will continue to exist because there is a market for their service they just have to set up parameters to protect their platforms from money launderers, I don't know how are they going to do that, but they should come out with an idea to avoid being targeted by the authorities.
Bitcoin mixing is not illegal or not yet but it's one of the businesses that is high risk, only the future will tell if they will continue to exist, maybe when there is no more high-profile hacking or scamming.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

It's something we may all not like to see come through by the 31st of December and the following day to have discovered that mixers are no more existing on the forum, by then if things never change and Theymos never reverse his stand over it, we will all be less concerned about which mixer is going down and which one is coming in new, since the forum banned them, it will now be a thing of battle between them and the government regulations individually and that will have nothing to do with the forum here where they use for making their advertisement, but we all are going to miss mixers on bitcointalk.

[Myleschetty]

In the future to prevent crypto mixers from troubling the authority they will increase the time to do some background checks on their customer. I'm saying this due to how abusive leads to KYC in crypto casinos.

I wonder who will use them then. I guess the average joe won't have a problem with chain analysis, but I don't think they will survive long enough since it is unlikely that they will attract big customers. Any privacy enthusiast would use coinjoin or other options if that is the norm imo. On the other hand, they don't have to explicitly tell the public and just work together with the government if profit is still the goal. CMIIW.

With the news over the internet about the crypto mixer and the Bitcointalk forum banning anything that has to do with crypto mixer which crypto Twitter also talks about I don't think the average Joe will use their service and the next thing they will do now is to stop their operation as Sinbad and start operation in a new name just like they once did with Blender

[bbc.reporter]

How is this a reputation board topic? Shouldn't it be in the service discussion board?


Mixers just don't get shutdown randomly. The law enforcement is mostly targeting those mixers that they believe have been used to launder Bitcoins from “Terrorists” or Hackers they think are state controlled, such as the Lazarus group.

This is the problem with the government. It can declare anything as an act of terrorists and use this for their own agenda very much similar to this hack from months ago where grandma Yellen accused it as an act from the Lazarus Group because the stolen coins were deposited to an address that was owned by the Lazarus.

It is headshaking because it is unconfirmed who owns the wallet and they cannot really prove that the Lazarus Group owns the wallet. What if it the hackers were hired by anticrypto people to disrupt the cryptospace through hacks and blame them on certain groups?

[robelneo]

In the future to prevent crypto mixers from troubling the authority they will increase the time to do some background checks on their customer. I'm saying this due to how abusive leads to KYC in crypto casinos.

That defeats the purpose of mixing, they have to trust the mixer in case they ask for KYC will they do because, in the first place, they use the mixer to anonymize their identity and they will also fear that the mixer will hostage their information.
If one mixer will do that background checking the clients will just choose other mixers that will not do background checking, we cannot change the business model of the mixer that's how they worked and that's how they are being patronized.
They are here to stay if authorities go after them or consider them illegal they always have the darknet to turn to.

[Myleschetty]

In the future to prevent crypto mixers from troubling the authority they will increase the time to do some background checks on their customer. I'm saying this due to how abusive leads to KYC in crypto casinos.

That defeats the purpose of mixing

Do you think using centralized crypto mixing doesn't have the chance of defeating the purpose of mixing? You entrusted someone you don't know from Adam to mix your coin for you. You don't know if the service of the crypto is mixed very well, and you don't know if the mixer is operated by the Feds. An example is how Sinbad use innocent people's fund for their dirty fund.
The only mixing that didn't defeat the purpose of mixing is the decentralized one.

they have to trust the mixer in case they ask for KYC will they do because, in the first place, they use the mixer to anonymize their identity and they will also fear that the mixer will hostage their information.

I'm not talking about KYC but the mixer doing some background checks on the wallet address if the transaction comes from a flag, criminal, or scammer wallet.

If one mixer will do that background checking the clients will just choose other mixers that will not do background checking, we cannot change the business model of the mixer that's how they worked and that's how they are being patronized.
They are here to stay if authorities go after them or consider them illegal they always have the darknet to turn to.

How will users of a centralized crypto mixer know that the mixer they used does some background check on them?
Mixing is not illegal and it was recognized by FinCen but rendering the service for criminals, drug lords, etc is what is illegal.