Mixing Your Bitcoin With Other People’s BTC Brings Risks and Possibilities
Is it possible for you to mix your Bitcoins with other people’s Bitcoins, and at the same time profit from it? Mixing companies claim it is - but there is a risk. Privacy is not just for criminals. Many people think that mixing services are primarily used to launder Bitcoins obtained through fraudulent or illegal means. This is not necessarily the case. Privacy is important for everybody. Criminals should not know how wealthy you are, strangers should not be aware of how you spend your money. This is a reason why Bitcoin mixers - Eg. Bitmixer.io - have grown their businesses. Trust is an....
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Whether or not Bitcoin mixing services will ever be very useful to the Bitcoin ecosystem, remains to be seen for now. Digital currency was never intended to be anonymous, and any service claiming to provide something else requires users to put their funds and faith into the hands of a third party. Plus, users have to rely on Tor to access certain Bitcoin mixing services, which only makes the whole process even more complicated. Not to mention how there is always a risk of losing funds. Bitcoin Mixing Is Not For Everybody. There are several ways to go about using a Bitcoin mixing service.....
NXT, the finance 2.0 blockchain platform, has voted unanimously to implement CoinShuffle, a coin mixing anonymity technique to NXTcoin and other 'Monetary System' tokens. Implementation is expected on the next major release. A vote was posed to the community this July 18 on whether the coin mixing implementation would apply just to MonetarySystem (MS) tokens or also to NXT's core token, NXTcoin. After only a day, the community's response was incontrovertible with nearly 100% of the votes supporting coin mixing implementation to NXTcoin. The votes will be weighed on July 26 based how much....
Larry Dean Harmon ran the first bitcoin mixing services targeted with criminal allegations by U.S. authorities.
Yesterday’s news regarding the Chinese stock market once again showed how brittle the global economy is at this point. With stocks tumbling slightly over 7 percent, trading was suspended a few hours before the markets closed. Things did not get off to a good start earlier today, as an early 2% loss was worrying a fair few investors. But things calmed down once the People’s Bank of China intervened and poured money into money markets. Based on the information provided by Reuters, it looks like the People’s Bank of China prevented another major loss for the CSI300 earlier today. Early traded....
The Governor of the Bank of Spain has alerted the public about the risks mixing traditional banks with crypto assets might bring to the economic system. Pablo Hernández de Cos stated that the direct or indirect exposure to these assets would increase the risks associated with the financial institutions. De Cos also stated that while this exposure is still low, it is constantly going up due to the integration of crypto services within these platforms.
Governor of Bank of Spain Notes Risks Associated With Banks Integrating Crypto Services
The Governor of the Bank of Spain,....