Someone has to say this on this sub. Seems like a good time to mention it after the whole Bitblender issue.
So before i get flamed by people assuming im going to say shit like "tumbling is pointless", the only reason I don't get it, is because suuuuurely it's easier to just send coins to an exchange and sell them and immediately buy them back (usually costs a dollar or something total) and boom! new coins. You can usually use any anonymous email you wish and i haven't needed to prove identity. At least thats what i do.
If im somehow massively missing the point/doing something wrong, please enlighten me oh wise ones...........
You got it. Back when sheep marketplace went down, there was a user here that was tracking the Bitcoin movements. They eventually landed at a wallet with something like 90,000 btc, and it ended up being BTC-e's main wallet. I've used exchanges as tumblers before.
Most people just have no idea how it works. There are several distinct parts to the Bitcoin ecosystem, and you know, I'm sure, how the average person has no clue about how Bitcoin works. Let alone the mining, the exchanges, the security, the protocol the darknet markets, any of it.