tumbling

Perhaps my knowledge on this subject is dwarfed but I just can't see how tumbling helps. Ok, so I have coins I took from AB and want to "clean" them of any trace they came from AB to me. So I send them thru Helix or some other tumbler. I assume a fuck ton of like minded DNM people are doing the same. In fact I would guess that every coin put into these tumblers are "dirty". It's like washing dirty clothes in dirty water, so the coins I get back can now be traced to Nucleus or Dream or worse yet some perv ass child porn site, or at very least a coin tumbler. So how does this "mixing" benefit me?

Could not better results be achieved by taking coins from AB, depositing them into an anonymous acct wallet on Blockchain and later withdrawing them? Wouldn't those coins have been mixed with other millions of likely cleaner coins? Thanks.


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[2 Points] lordredvampire:

Use CoinJoin (aka JoinMarket). You can download the software here:

https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/JMBinary


[0 Points] RosyPalm:

The idea behind tumbling is to prevent someone from using the blockchain to trace your coins from your wallet all the way to your vendor's wallet.

Your BTCs go into the tumbler and then on a series of transactions just continue away from you without every going to your vendor.

On the other side of the tumbler, there's a series of transactions coming together into the vendor's wallet that never comes from you. If the tumbler did it's job, then there is no link between the two transactions. Substitute DNM for vendor if you aren't dealing direct.

Could not better results be achieved by taking coins from AB, depositing them into an anonymous acct wallet on Blockchain and later withdrawing them? Wouldn't those coins have been mixed with other millions of likely cleaner coins? Thanks.

I don't think the regular wallets mix the coins. It would be easy to follow the BTCs right up until you cash out. LE would subpoena them for any details, and they'd comply. If there is any tie to your real identity you're screwed.