Topic: ✰ [ANN] FoxMixer.com ✰✰✰ The High Quality Bitcoin Mixer ✰✰✰ 4+ Years Online ✰ - page 3. (Read 3186 times)

Thanks for taking the time to write a review about our service and for being so thorough!


That's a reasonable suggestion. We will consider to add a check for address equality and show a warning to the user if this is the case.


Well, it is explicitly stated that 0.001 BTC is the fee per payout address. It is also to be expected since there is a need to cover transaction fees also for low amount mixes.
Directly after creating a mix you can check the amount you will receive as a payout, so there is no surprises here.


The amount of confirmations is in most cases not a hurdle as the minimum payout delay is 2 h.
Since a new block is mined every 10 minutes on average, the confirmation is in almost all cases completed at the time the two hours have passed.




Not quite. You are right, it is stated explicitly that each mix must be used only once.
But we are quite some time in the business now and have acquired some knowledge about what kind of things can happen.
And if somebody erroneously sends a second transaction before the payout was completed, the mixing engine will wait for that second transaction to fully confirm before initiating the payout.
Thus, the full amount of bitcoins will be payed out.
It is just not the documented and recommended way of using the service. But for sure we invested a lot of time in implementing the logic to deal reasonably with corner cases as the one you mentioned such that no bitcoins are "lost".



Yes, we embrace Segwit transactions due to the advantages you mention.

I tried to use this service without reading just to put myself in the shoes of the newbie user who wants to test the mixer for the first time:

After entering the Foxmixer, the simple UI attracted me, everything is simply explained in the FAQ section. Clicking to the start button is enough to flash the new mixing code which will be used for separating future mixing amounts. I can add new addresses depending on the privacy I expect from the mixer. By the way, if the user has used this mixer, entering the previous mixing code will prevent the system to send the previously mixed BTC-s to the new ordered addresses.  0.002 BTC is the lowest amount for mixing BTC and fees are not high compared to the alternative mixers, honestly. I have tried the other mixers too, the Foxmixer has some advantages which I didn’t observe on other mixers, fees are around 1%. For each output address, 0.001 BTC is extracted from the total mixed amount.

Pros:

The fees are as advertised, there is no hidden fee
A letter of guarantee is the paperwork for using this service, in any case, the user can prove the ownership of orders.

The payout percentage is indicated on the LoG, for each address, there is an additional section per desired percentage amount. The user will not misunderstand anything after reading the simply written LoG.

The option to use PGP encryption for contact with support. The best advantage is to stay anonymous if something is not right during the mixing process.

The page is really helpful to track the transaction status and payouts. It was designed well and all details are there for any case.

I can use both Legacy and Segwit addresses. TBH, I prefer to use the Segwit addresses for the faster and low-cost mining fee transactions, Foxmixer has provided this advantage.




Cons:

There is a possibility to lose the second transaction, the terms and conditions clearly dictate this rule: Only one transaction per address.

6 confirmation is a bit very strict for amounts lower than 1 BTC and applying the required confirmation per amount will be a good idea.

I can use the same address on both payout section, maybe the user will be a victim of “fat finger”. Just a suggestion, there was no warning by the site for using the same address on all BTC address fields.

There is no warning on the mixing page, I will pay the 0.001 BTC fee even if I had used one single address on the first transaction. This was the disappointment for me, the user should know the adding new payout address will cost them 0.001 BTC but charging the same amount for the original address will not attract the new users, IMHO.

 The FoxMixer team wishes all of you a great start to the new year! 

Let's continue the success in bitcoin privacy.
Our support team is eager to answer your questions for 2020.

A new update to our automated infrastructure was applied.
In case of a hardware failure of any single cluster node, the failover time for switching to a backup node was reduced.



As the year is approaching its end, it is time to draw a short resume for 2019

A large share of the mixing service fee has always been dedicated to the investment into our server infrastructure.
Thanks to your contribution, we're able to provide and extend our global network of load balancers and broadcast servers.

The redundancy-by-design approach of FoxMixer results in a "no single point of failure" policy.
Next to maximizing ease of use, FoxMixer is coded from the ground with this principle in mind -  and it has not been added as an afterthought!
It can't.
From our experience with cluster management, multi-node systems which are bended to failure tolerance as an afterthought are doomed to fail.

Thinking about critical design questions and rare corner-cases beforehand is time consuming and sometimes straining, but has payed off for our team at every step we have taken.
This has allowed us to deliver the high-quality service and uptime that FoxMixer is providing.
And still, we're maintaining all of this with all log features turned off. We don't delete logs. Because we don't even generate them.

The mixing engine itself has always been highly fault-tolerant.
And now, our infrastructure is becoming more and more automated as well. To such an extend that it can cope automatically with all kinds of events that may occur.


We're proud to announce that there has been no downtime due to hardware or software failures during the entire year at all, even though the amount of mixing requests has increased.
All mixes were payed out in time. All of them.

Our team doesn't want to miss out the opportunity to say thank you to all our new users that are trusting us with their large amounts of coins
and we highly value the users who have been following us along the way since our start back in 2017!

Keep your privacy

And have a good mix!

No, your coins are never lost if you have downloaded the Letter of Guarantee.
Contact us and we can solve all kinds of problems.

does it mean my bitcoin are lost if there`s a manual verification that takes longer as usual?

Hi,

for the exchange, the address of your mix looks like any other bitcoin address. The exchange and everybody else can't differentiate whether it is your address or the one of FoxMixer.
And if you enter your own address as the payout destination of the mix, this should work.
But keep in mind that the payment to the mix address should happen within 48 hours after generation. If the exchange is going to verify your payment manually then this may potentially take longer.

Can I do a payment directly form an exchange to foxmixer?

Many users have been emailing us about it. And since our regular user base grew quite decently within the last few years, we are very proud to be able to invest our time into new and important developments.

And that is:
From now on, FoxMixer provides full SegWit support!

Yes, that's right! Starting from now, all newly generated FoxMixer addresses are P2SH addresses (starting with "3...") which are supported by almost all wallets these days. We see this as a crucial step to keep up with the development of Bitcoin and to achieve faster confirmation times with lower fees. Some redesigns of the mixing engine architecture were necessary to fully support SegWit addresses. Several extensive tests of all changes were conducted by our team within the last months before the update went live.

Up until now it was possible to use only addresses starting with "1..." or "3..." for payouts. This change additionally enables the use of Bech32 addresses as payout destination for your mixes.
Many wallets can already generate addresses starting with "bc1..." and FoxMixer is now able to send directly to these addresses.

Try it out and profit from the advantages of SegWit!

Have a good mix

A recent core update enables more parallel requests and better load balancing for our site.

No downtime was involved. All users got their payouts in time.

Have a good mix!

Two updates that improve the page performance (both clearnet and tor) were applied yesterday.

As usual, all updates to FoxMixer are applied gradually as rolling updates with zero downtime and continuous self-testing.

That worked

Thanks for the fast support!

Hi! I'm sure we can help you there.
It's easiest if you write an email to our support team via contact(at)foxmixer.com

Make sure to enclose your letter of guarantee.

Hi,

I've been successfully using your service for a decent amount of time.
Today I accidentally set the payout delay to 48 hours which I realized just after I've sent my coins to the mixer. Obviously, this is my fault. But is there a possibility to get back my coins earlier than the time I set?

Thx for your help and sorry for my dumb mistake

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

Added support in 0.0.2: https://github.com/teran-mckinney/foxmixer-python/commit/d098e87597885be74b623eab60f4733e0fd0c9d3

Great idea! That enables mixing directly from the terminal. We've looked into the sources, it's implemented very well and clearly plus has some nice error handling.
An additional suggestion would be to accept a param "mixcode" and pass it on to the HTTP GET request in order to support users that do multiple consecutive mixes.

We've sent .005 BTC as a tip to your "affiliate" address for the implementation work.




Thanks for the listing. The API and the Transaction Origin Randomization are also features you may want to add.

Yes, we're not running a signature campaign.

You don't have a signature campaign right?
Added FoxMixer in our list here https://cryptocreed.com/best-bitcoin-mixer-list-of-2019/  Let me know if you find any info incorrect.

I've released a Python 3 library and CLI for Foxmixer.



Screenshot:



Of course, no guarantees expressed or implied. Read the source before using. Just a simple wrapper to FoxMixers API.

Source on Github: https://github.com/teran-mckinney/foxmixer-python

Recently, a major update was published to FoxMixer. It is mainly driven by user feedback we receive directly during support requests.

We're happy to share with you that a lot of work went into the redesign of the status page of FoxMixer and it was revamped to a more reactive version that instantaneously updates to better reflect the current status of the mix.
Many times, our support team was contacted during a mix and asked whether everything is working correctly. It's understandable, since bitcoin mixing as many other services means trusting an external party.
Now, the status page allows to check that everything works out as expected during the entire life cycle of every mix.


Second to that, a new version of the unique Deep Mempool Analysis feature was applied.
As much as we love to observe the growing global adoption of bitcoin, it more frequently results in high confirmation times. We have taken countermeasures and increased the payout miner fee base factor for a fast confirmation of all payouts from FoxMixer, usually within the next block. The miner fee itself is still randomized for maximum privacy.

The tutorials page now contains more detailed instructions on how to mix using the Bitcoin Core wallet.

For a full list of changes, visit https://www.foxmixer.com/#news (scroll down)


Next to working on the development of the core of FoxMixer, we're also constantly setting up, updating and maintaining all the backbone infrastructure required for the unbeaten up-time, fast support and high quality of the mixes.

We're happy to see the continuous increase in our recurring user base that allows us to keep working on this project, developing smart algorithms for the mixing core and we'll continue to improve FoxMixer based on your ideas.
As usual, all feedback is highly welcomed, also directly via our contact email address.

All the best and keep your bitcoin privacy

A new update of the mixing engine was rolled out recently.




Some of the new features:

• Mixcodes - Different Coins Each Time: Up to this point, our huge mixing volume was sufficient to guarantee that no user receives his own coins from an earlier mix again. However, as the mixer gets more popular and more and more users begin to use it, it was necessary to introduce a way to ensure this also for the future.

• Deep Mempool Analysis: If you expect a payout of 4 BTC and at the time of the payout, only transactions of around 0.01 BTC get done, it is evident that analysts will focus on your transaction first. The Deep Mempool Analysis technology actively monitors the volume of current transactions in the bitcoin mempool and shifts payouts to the perfect timeslot, if necessary.

• QR-Codes: The creation of QR codes for mixing addresses allows for convenient sending of coins from a wallet on the smartphone / tablet.