Duh.
We can apply it to a lot of things. I might say, for example, despite recent investigations and exposes in the news, gold trading is NOT money laundering. Used for decades and a known tool for money laundering, terrorism, WMD, etc. But we aren't going after people who trade gold specifically, are we? So just because there are powerful networks that clean dirty money through gold trading -- gold sourced from bloody mines in Africa, routed to Middle East, or to refineries in the US, where it can be freshly sold to the rest of the world, doesn't make gold trading money laundering.
Just because bad guy A used mixers to try and clean his ill-gotten gains doesn't make all mixer users bad guys.
goldsmiths know the loopholes. thats how they get away with it. they dont advertise mixers when they steal nazi gold and african blood gold and smelt it together and then churn out new bars with new stamps. realise how they do it to realise how you lot should do it
but mixers are not trade service. its not a retailer, a smelter. a mine, a shipping company, a exchange. the pure function of a mixer is to tumble and mix funds. which means it has a higher % of people wanting to hide things they dont want governments seeing. because thats its sole/promoted purpose
and so unlike other services that solve other purposes with a unspoken side function of swapping different deposits to different withdrawals. mixing services sole purpose is to swap different deposits to different withdrawals with no real OTHER service in the center to explain any real legit valid reason for usage in the middle
MONEY has never been private. money for longer then all readers have been alive has never been private. money/currency has always had a central control.
bitcoin 2009 was not considered money by the laws. it was considered private property.
it was not until ~2013 where bitcoin became considered convertibly described as currency by law. which changed it from being private property(consequence of being declared currency). meaning bitcoin is not protected by private property laws in regards to privacy, instead its now in the jurisdiction of currency, meaning banking, tax and auditing laws now apply
i personally prefered the days before 2014. but some people dont even take the time to realise the reality of laws/jurisdictions and declarations that changed how bitcoin was treated in the last 14 years. nor do they care to realise what it means to use a service that advertises itself as something that is red flagged by regulators.
be smarter create services that are not so on-the-nose of being promoted as something regulators want to watch, if you dont want to be watched