Bitcoin anonymity and tumbling

I know most people around here tumble their bitcoins, but I have a couple questions regarding this:

  1. Wouldn't it be just as effective to simply purchase the coins however you want (ie Coinbase), then create two other wallets on blockchain.info while using Tor? Then you just send the money from your Coinbase wallet to the first anonymous wallet, then use Tor to send from the first anonymous wallet to the second (and then into a Darknet account). By doing this, there is absolutely no way to legally prove that the money is yours. The first transfer could have been someone you paid for anything, and then this anonymous person could have sent it to the next wallet for any reason as well. Just like if some law abiding Person A sends bitcoin to Person B and Person B uses it for illegal things, the Person A could never get in trouble for what Person B does with it. Does this make sense?
  2. Money laundering is illegal, regardless of if you do it IRL or online. Doesn't it concern any of you that you are openly transferring money to a money laundering service? Make no mistake - that is exactly what it is, even if they call it a "bitcoin tumbler". It's like you're openly committing a more serious crime (money laundering) to cover up a lesser crime (drug posession). That doesn't make any sense to me.


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[2 Points] galaxyandspace:

That method only works if they truly aren't able to connect those accounts to you. There is always an off chance they somehow could connect you to the account.

Bitcoin isn't legally considered currency in most states (nation sense). Wrap your head around that first. Therefore you can't money launder something that isn't considered money. bitcoin is designed to work outside the law. It also can be hard to prove you are using a tumbler if you are using them right... Boom.

Edit: grammar.


[1 Points] None:

Its just an extra layer of security. At the moment it doesn't appear to be strictly necessary so make sure you understand the risks on both sides of the coin and then tumble or don't according to your level of risk tolerance and patience.