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Making a distinction between the actual mix and the data collated by the server hosting the website for a moment and focusing only on the mix element. If someone posted an address and then used what you refer to as a "mixer website" of their choice to mix, would you be able to find the exact location of the mixed funds?

Or, if someone already mixed using a website and gave you the post-mix address, would you be able to trace it back to the source? If the answer is yes, then that defeats the object of obfuscation the privacy seeker wanted and the/those mixer websites do not offer privacy. Did you ever test anything on the lines of this?

Your "if" statement isn't a possibility, funds are always associated with the original transaction when you use a "mixing website" since a "mixing website" has the exact same privacy as the traditional banking system.
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Let us just say for a moment that all of the mixing websites out there do not mix in the way that a coinjoin using Wasabi Wallet or Ginger Wallet does, in the end how is that detrimental to the aims of the privacy seeker if at the end of the mix the funds cannot be associated with the original transaction the privacy seeker wanted to obfuscate?

Your "if" statement isn't a possibility, funds are always associated with the original transaction when you use a "mixing website" since a "mixing website" has the exact same privacy as the traditional banking system.
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Let us just say for a moment that all of the mixing websites out there do not mix in the way that a coinjoin using Wasabi Wallet or Ginger Wallet does, in the end how is that detrimental to the aims of the privacy seeker if at the end of the mix the funds cannot be associated with the original transaction the privacy seeker wanted to obfuscate?

There is the possible data harvesting issue that could take place using the mixing websites when sending/receiving funds but when it comes to the mix itself, if it does the intended job why are you calling it a scam?

Yes, I'm forcing you to provide proof for the false claim you made over and over and OVER AGAIN that "mixing site" scams provide a service:
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I wasn't accusing any specific centralized mixer of not doing their job, it was you, and you're asking me for proof?

Yes, I'm forcing you to provide proof for the false claim you made over and over and OVER AGAIN that "mixing site" scams provide a service:

And mixer's receiving address is merely another peer in the network, no? Centralized mixers, like centralized exchanges, are merely providing a service for the community.

That's my exact point: A "mixing site" is just someone else's wallet. Unlike exchanges or casinos, a "mixing site" is not a service since there is no underlying purpose for the site's existence.

Because if the entity you call "the wallet" actually mixes their users' outputs well, then who are you to tell everyone that "there's no underlying purpose for its existence"? If it's a service and does the service well, then it's up to you to use it, or not to use it.

The entity's wallet doesn't mix users' outputs at all. There's absolutely nothing technological involved here that enhances privacy.

I'm talking about a hypothetical mixing service that actually does everything right, which may also exist somewhere, no?

Yeah, that's exactly my point that proves o_e_l_e_o and BlackHatCoiner's goal is to scam users out of both their coins AND their data. You can't possibly mistake these scammers for "Privacy Advocates" since the custodians they promote don't provide any privacy whatsoever, despite the option for these custodians to issue fully anonymous Chaumian Ecash.

But if you believe that a mixer that was advertised in BitcoinTalk is/was merely an "entity's wallet" that does/did absolutely nothing, then please ser, kindly show us the data/proof of your findings.

Stop playing dumb, it's not like you could have forgotten that you still owe everyone on this thread an apology for your partnership with Sinbad

where's the data that those services actually didn't do their jobs in mixing their users' outputs? They probably did mix them, no?

No, we already established these sites do absolutely no "mixing" whatsoever, it's just a deposit address for the scammer's wallet

Centralized mixers might have flaws, there might be weaknesses, but those entities actually making no effort of mixing their users' outputs?

A mixing site is not "flawed". A mixing site does not have "weaknesses". A mixing site has LITERALLY NO PRIVACY ASPECTS WHATSOEVER, A MIXING SITE JUST GENERATES A DEPOSIT ADDRESS FOR THE SCAMMER'S WALLET.

Because not all centralized mixers are built the same, no? Although you make a good point of telling us that there are bad actors out there, but there must be those good ones that do provide an actual service of making users' outputs untraceable?

I already explained this to you:

I'm talking about a hypothetical mixing service that actually does everything right, which may also exist somewhere, no?

Yeah, that's exactly my point that proves o_e_l_e_o and BlackHatCoiner's goal is to scam users out of both their coins AND their data. You can't possibly mistake these scammers for "Privacy Advocates" since the custodians they promote don't provide any privacy whatsoever, despite the option for these custodians to issue fully anonymous Chaumian Ecash.

many of them also try to build a real mixing service to make their users' outputs untraceable after the mix, no?

No, they don't. I already explained this to you:

I'm talking about a hypothetical mixing service that actually does everything right, which may also exist somewhere, no?

Yeah, that's exactly my point that proves o_e_l_e_o and BlackHatCoiner's goal is to scam users out of both their coins AND their data. You can't possibly mistake these scammers for "Privacy Advocates" since the custodians they promote don't provide any privacy whatsoever, despite the option for these custodians to issue fully anonymous Chaumian Ecash.

These custodial sites do not issue Chaumian ecash. These custodial sites do not issue coins on a sidechain with confidential transactions. "Mixing sites" offer absolutely zero privacy whatsoever to depositors in the process of stealing their coins.

I understand, you already posted about that.

Then why are you still pretending like there's a chance these scamming sites are providing a service?

But the burden of proof on what? That my opinion is that there are centralized mixers that accept the trade-offs of being centralized/be a trusted-third-party to do what their service is supposed to do?

Yes, you've had a week to justify your opinion with a single shred of proof that supports it:

BUT like you posted in your post before, you have no data to the claim that any/all centralized mixers are mere wallets that do not mix their users' outputs. No data = no proof = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims.

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

And after a week you failed to find any proof whatsoever of a "mixing site" actually performing a privacy operation on the deposits of their users in the process of stealing them. Since you clearly know that "mixing sites" are scams, why do you continue to pretend there is a chance they are providing a service?

Simply answer the question Wind_FURY: Since you clearly know that "mixing sites" scams provide absolutely no privacy whatsoever in the process of stealing the deposits of their users, why do you continue to pretend there is a chance they are providing a service or performing a job?
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But the burden of proof on what? That my opinion is that there are centralized mixers that accept the trade-offs of being centralized/be a trusted-third-party to do what their service is supposed to do?

Yes, you've had a week to justify your opinion with a single shred of proof that supports it:

BUT like you posted in your post before, you have no data to the claim that any/all centralized mixers are mere wallets that do not mix their users' outputs. No data = no proof = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims.

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

And after a week you failed to find any proof whatsoever of a "mixing site" actually performing a privacy operation on the deposits of their users in the process of stealing them. Since you clearly know that "mixing sites" are scams, why do you continue to pretend there is a chance they are providing a service?


I wasn't accusing any specific centralized mixer of not doing their job, it was you, and you're asking me for proof?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not even accusing you of spreading FUD, or being wrong because you might also be right. I was simply asking for practical/readable and verifiable data for fairness sake, and for the sake of the topic. Because if no one could provide the data, then the claims will always be open to debate.
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Comments like these remind you that fighting the army of "mixing site" scammers here on Bitcointalk.org is worth it. Wasabi Wallet unlocks privacy for Bitcoin and freedom for the entire world, no mission could possibly be more important.
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Here's the research paper proving the coinjoin protocol turns your coins completely anonymous: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/206.pdf

Here's the open source code implementing that protocol that you can verify yourself: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi
Research paper can be faked and neither you or me can write Code so that page is pretty much useless to both of us,

I am not entirely versed in cryptography research papers although I study the WabiSabi whitepaper from time to time, but this paper definitely isn't a fake (unlike low-effort papers created by memecoin developers by comparison, if any).

Although since I can't demonstrate how any of the theorems work, I can't actually prove that, but it's commonly accepted to be the case.
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Research paper can be faked and neither you or me can write Code so that page is pretty much useless to both of us,

Sounds like a skill issue.
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Here's the research paper proving the coinjoin protocol turns your coins completely anonymous: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/206.pdf

Here's the open source code implementing that protocol that you can verify yourself: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi
Research paper can be faked and neither you or me can write Code so that page is pretty much useless to both of us,

I don't know how to write code, my only pull request to Wasabi simply adds a single line of text to warn users not to forget their passwords: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/12207
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Prove Coin Joins actually do something for our Privacy and are have not already been cracked by Authorities yet, which would render them useless.

Here's the research paper proving the coinjoin protocol turns your coins completely anonymous: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/206.pdf

Here's the open source code implementing that protocol that you can verify yourself: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi
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And after a week you failed to find any proof whatsoever of a "mixing site" actually performing a privacy operation on the deposits of their users in the process of stealing them.
You could spin that how ever you want.  Typical Kruw word play.

Prove Coin Joins actually do something for our Privacy and are have not already been cracked by Authorities yet, which would render them useless.
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But the burden of proof on what? That my opinion is that there are centralized mixers that accept the trade-offs of being centralized/be a trusted-third-party to do what their service is supposed to do?

Yes, you've had a week to justify your opinion with a single shred of proof that supports it:

BUT like you posted in your post before, you have no data to the claim that any/all centralized mixers are mere wallets that do not mix their users' outputs. No data = no proof = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims.

The burden of proof is on you, not me.

And after a week you failed to find any proof whatsoever of a "mixing site" actually performing a privacy operation on the deposits of their users in the process of stealing them. Since you clearly know that "mixing sites" are scams, why do you continue to pretend there is a chance they are providing a service?
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But the burden of proof on what? That my opinion is that there are centralized mixers that accept the trade-offs of being centralized/be a trusted-third-party to do what their service is supposed to do?

Every custodial mixer is closed source and therefore we really don’t know if they are doing what they are claiming to do. Many of them don’t make a serious effort to provide users with privacy and are just clumsily moving coins around between wallets without any concern that they might be leaking information that may potentially deanonymize their customers. Mixers are really just a cash grab foremost, rather than a privacy service.
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You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims.

The burden of proof is on you, not me.


But the burden of proof on what? That my opinion is that there are centralized mixers that accept the trade-offs of being centralized/be a trusted-third-party to do what their service is supposed to do?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because I didn't accuse centralized mixers and centralized coordinators for not doing their jobs, although I understand that it's possible for some of them to be operated by bad actors.
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You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims.

The burden of proof is on you, not me.
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I understand, you already posted about that.

Then why are you still pretending like there's a chance these scamming sites are providing a service?


Ser, please get the whole context. You accuse ALL of them of being scams? OK, then please provide the data/proof of your claims. I'm not trying to offend you. I'm merely trying to be objective and impartial to everyone in the topic because I truly believe that there are no absolutes. Merely trade-offs.

In fact, when Wasabi Wallet's developers decided to work with a blockchain analytics company to filter "bad outputs", I was the only person who wasn't from Wasabi who posted that it's a mere trade-off and that it should be an understandable decision.
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I understand, you already posted about that.

Then why are you still pretending like there's a chance these scamming sites are providing a service?
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many of them also try to build a real mixing service to make their users' outputs untraceable after the mix, no?

No, they don't. I already explained this to you:

I'm talking about a hypothetical mixing service that actually does everything right, which may also exist somewhere, no?


Yeah, that's exactly my point that proves o_e_l_e_o and BlackHatCoiner's goal is to scam users out of both their coins AND their data. You can't possibly mistake these scammers for "Privacy Advocates" since the custodians they promote don't provide any privacy whatsoever, despite the option for these custodians to issue fully anonymous Chaumian Ecash.


These custodial sites do not issue Chaumian ecash. These custodial sites do not issue coins on a sidechain with confidential transactions. "Mixing sites" offer absolutely zero privacy whatsoever to depositors in the process of stealing their coins.


I understand, you already posted about that. But that's not actual data/proof/evidence to your claim that the entire Bitcoin "Centralized Mixing Industry" are scams that are operated by scammers, no?

Plus ser, relax. I'm not accusing you of lying nor am I saying that no one should listen to you. I'm merely asking if there's actual data to prove those claims. Because if there's none, let's merely go back on topic and talk about Wasabi.
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many of them also try to build a real mixing service to make their users' outputs untraceable after the mix, no?

No, they don't. I already explained this to you:

I'm talking about a hypothetical mixing service that actually does everything right, which may also exist somewhere, no?

Yeah, that's exactly my point that proves o_e_l_e_o and BlackHatCoiner's goal is to scam users out of both their coins AND their data. You can't possibly mistake these scammers for "Privacy Advocates" since the custodians they promote don't provide any privacy whatsoever, despite the option for these custodians to issue fully anonymous Chaumian Ecash.

These custodial sites do not issue Chaumian ecash. These custodial sites do not issue coins on a sidechain with confidential transactions. "Mixing sites" offer absolutely zero privacy whatsoever to depositors in the process of stealing their coins.
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BUT like you posted in your post before, you have no data to the claim that any/all centralized mixers are mere wallets that do not mix their users' outputs. No data = no proof = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The burden of proof is on you, not me.


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I didn't make any accusations/assumptions.

Although you might be right that SOME centralized mixers might be actual scams that don't actually mix their users' outputs, many of them also try to build a real mixing service to make their users' outputs untraceable after the mix, no? But you can't accept that and merely accuse ALL centralized mixers as mere hot wallets that mix their users' outputs.

OK, you're passionate about truth, understandable. Your data/proof?
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