OpSec compromised, now what?

I mixed up my "clean" and "dirty" wallets. That is, I used a wallet to buy legal stuff on the clearnet, that had already been used to buy stuff on a DNM (small order)...

  1. How bad is it? Obviously, I will lay low for the next couple of months but should I flush all my shit right now? I live in the EU if that matters.

  2. If I ever want to use these BTC on a DNM, can I just transfer them to a new wallet on Tails or do I need to tumble or something?

I feel so idiotic right now... Any help appreciated.


Comments


[14 Points] CaliforniaJugg:

Nigga relax unless your big Bambino the plug moving 100 pounds or some shit they're not gonna give a fuck


[9 Points] gangsterdam020:

nigga, ain't nobody gonna come for you! Lay low? Did you shoot people while mixing your wallets? Roll a joint and sit down, go away from that window they're not coming!


[3 Points] None:

How much your face/asshole is mangled depends on many things. If you are a delicious target for LE, like a vendor or large buyer (this means spending a lot of money, not if you are a fat fuck), opsec mistakes will be magnified the bigger target you are.

It is possible that no mangling at all has occured. Here's how to figure that shit out. What you need to figure out is what inputs from your dark wallet sourced your clearnet purchase. This will depend on how the wallet has been used, balances, etc. I will assume your dark wallet funding process looks like this:

  1. Buy Bitcoin
  2. Mixer/Tumbler
  3. Dark Wallet
  4. Spend on drugs and accidental clearnet

The key to determine how mangled you are is going to be to figure out where the coins came from that was used to fund your purchase. The main thing you will want to find out is whether the coins sent to purchase the clearnet item came from an address(es) that had coins from the mixer/tumbler or whether it was coins from a change address which was the change leftover from a previous DNM purchase. If the clearnet purchase came from an address that was funded directly from the mixer/tumbler, then at that point, there should be no taint (BTC address taint, not the other taint) from your DNM purchase and the clearnet store might be able to tell it came from a tumbler/mixer and that's all.

But if your clearnet purchase came from inputs that were change addresses from your prior DNM purchases, then there would be taint from DNM activity.

You can find out from blockchain which it is. But as a basic rule of thumb, if you had a relatively larger balance in the wallet than what you usually spend, its more likely that coin straight from the tumbler was the inputs for your clearnet purchase. If your wallet tended to be "nearly" spent, or your purchasing pattern tends to be "tumbler coin to darknet wallet and spend most of it on a DNM purchase, tumble more coin and spend most of it" sort of pattern, its going to be likely that there is DNM purchase taint. If you have more of a pattern of tumbling more coin than you'd usually need on a purchase and didn't have many purchases, more than likely you spent coins from the tumbler/mixer but it all just depends on the specifics of your transaction history.

To find out for sure, just look at the blockchain. Look up the specific transaction that funded your clearnet purchase and see what the input addresses were. If one or more inputs was from a change address, then there is taint. If the inputs look like it was from a tumbler as you go down the blockchain and none came from a change address, you should have minimal or no mangling of the asshole. The reason for this is so Electrum follows best practices with not re-using bitcoin addresses. Electrum makes use of change addresses to do this. When you spend coin and there is leftover coin in the bitcoin address(es) used as inputs, Electrum will still send all of the coin out. But this transaction will have two outputs. One output will be to the clearnet store for your purchase. And the other output will be to a new address in your Electrum wallet (called the change address). Now there is a link because of that change address. Eventually as you spend coin from that wallet, you will end up using the funds in that change address. And this is why you need to get that coin out of your wallet entirely so that a future purchase won't use that coin. And this is what causes the taint between your clearnet purchase and a future DNM purchase.

A quick example of this in action. Say 1BTCADDRESS1 is in your electrum wallet, had .5BTC in it and is the next address your Electrum wallet will use. If you spend .3BTC on your clearnet purchases, Electrum will see you have .5BTC in 1BTCADDRESS1 and this is enough to make your .3BTC purchase. But there is excess coin. Forget about miner fees to make it easy, so you have .2BTC left over and Electrum will send that .2BTC to a new address in your electrum wallet. If the clearnet store deposit address is 1CLEARNETADDRESS and Electrum change address is 1CHANGEADDRESS, the transaction will look like:

1BTCADDRESS1-------> .3BTC 1CLEARNETADDRESS
-------> .2BTC 1CHANGEADDRESS

Its a transaction that has 1 input and 2 outputs. Now you have linked 1CHANGEADDRESS and 1CLEARNETADDRESS together and this is what you want to break for future purposes. You don't want to spend coin from 1CHANGEADDRESS on a future DNM purchase. And this coin will be eventually used if it remains in your wallet.

Going forward, there are a few different things you can do so future DNM purchases don't link/taint you to the clearnet purchase. When you made your clearnet purchase, look at the blockchain at the transaction. See if there was a change address used. If there was no change address, then you shouldn't have to do anything further. This wouldn't be common unless you sent the whole balance of your wallet to make the purchase or if you just so happened to spent the exact amount of bitcoin contained in the inputs used to fund it.

If you wanted to re-tumble the minimal amount of funds, my mangled face thinks that only the coin in the change address needs to be re-tumbled or just moved out entirely of your dark wallet. Electrum lets you spend coin from a specific bitcoin address so you could just transfer the funds from the change address out and tumble it or do whatever with it. You mainly just want to remove that coin from your dark wallet so that future DNM purchases won't be linked to this clearnet purchase. Or you could retumble the entire balance of your dark wallet into a new address.

Hopefully this helps. I really just talked about knowing whether or not there is a bitcoin taint between DNM activity and your clearnet purchase. Even if there is taint between a DNM purchase and this clearnet purchase, it doesn't mean your asshole and/or face will be mangled. Unless you are being pursued actively or if you are a vendor or otherwise big target, I would bet that this transgression would go unnoticed.

Source: My face is mangled from meth. So is my asshole, but not from meth.


[2 Points] None:

What you're saying makes zero sense.


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[0 Points] Yurgadrugig:

nigga chill


[-5 Points] basjin:

depends on the market you used and the the way you washed your btc.

just a little example:

you bought btc, transferred it directly to AB/HANSA without tumbling, from the same wallet adresses you mentioned used to buy 'legal' stuff. you are fucked, no doubt.