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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 02 2017, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the shake-it-up-baby dept.

BitMixer, the world's most popular Bitcoin mixing service has announced last weekend it was shutting down operations effective immediately.

Bitcoin mixing is a process of taking money from one account and breaking it into hundreds or thousands of smaller transactions to transfer it to another account.

For years, it was believed that Bitcoin mixing is a safe way to transfer funds anonymously from one account to another, mainly because there was no technology to track all the transactions and reveal the destination account.

In a statement, the BitMixer owners said they were shutting down the service after realizing that Bitcoin was a "transparent non-anonymous system by design."

[...] "Blockchain is a great open book. I believe that Bitcoin will have a great future without dark market transactions. You may use Dash or Zerocoin if you want to buy some weed. Not Bitcoin," the BitMixer team wrote.

"I hope our decision will help to make Bitcoin ecosystem more clean and transparent. I hope our competitors will hear our message and will close their services too. Very soon this kind of activity will be considered as illegal in most of countries," the team also wrote, issuing a warning for fellow Bitcoin mixers.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/internets-largest-bitcoin-mixer-shuts-down-realizing-bitcoin-is-not-anonymous/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @06:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @06:46AM (#548249)

    Laws against structuring are nonsense to begin with, since the government shouldn't be spying on everyone's financial transactions.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday August 03 2017, @08:56AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday August 03 2017, @08:56AM (#548268) Homepage
    That's as stupid as saying "government shouldn't be taxing people".
    Which is as stupid as saying "government shouldn't exist".
    Which is as stupid as saying "Somalia is a model society right now".
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @03:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @03:03PM (#548381)

    Laws against structuring are nonsense to begin with

    Try telling that to the police officer about to arrest you for it. Good luck. ;-)