[Review] Grams Helix

I got curious and bit the bullet, here is a review.

I was considering using it a few days ago and the $5 fee put me off, but today I found out that 0.01 sign-up fee is credited to your account... So far so good. Making an account on Grams was problem-free and I liked the forced 2-FA.

Speed: you can load your Helix account after your fee payment gets 3 confirmations. After that it takes another 3 confirmations to be able to spend the coins you just loaded so all in all half an hour or so. Then you can choose a delay with which to execute the outgoing transaction and then the process, as they said, would take about 3 or 4 hours. Mine took 4 hours total, including a 2-hour delay, perhaps because the amount was small.

Taint: the ad is completely honest. Not only did blockchain analysis reveal 0 taint to my original address, but when I went to check up on the coins I sent to Grams - they all went to some internal address somewhere and the coins I got must have been new.

Now, there's a few important questions I cannot answer. Is /u/gramsadmin an FBI agent, trying to simplify his job and investigate every address to send him coins, as opposed to tirelessly wading through a sea of addresses that at some point inevitably end up contributing to market pool? Where do the fresh coins come from? More importantly, what do YOUR coins get used for later? Is there even a point to the whole tumbling thing if you don't know that? If /u/gramsadmin is not an FBI agent, will he end up getting caught and tried for money laundering seeing as he has a clearnet site up and probably some exchange accounts connected to Helix? Gah, I don't know.

For now all I can tell you is that Helix works, it works fast, and it works by giving you new coins as advertised.


Comments


[2 Points] ChocolateWonderfall:

Id like more specifics on this. You make it sound as if there is only one intermediate wallet. If so, thats a huge no-no in the tumbling world.

It doesnt matter if the coins are new if the process isnt done correctly. If you just deposit .5 btc from Wallet A to the Grams-owned Wallet B, and Wallet B simply deposits .5 btc to Wallet C, thats a shit tumbler. Useless, really. Pretty obvious Wallet A just gave .5 btc to Wallet C.


[2 Points] gramsadmin:

I would like to clarify some things. The clear net site is just a redirect and ofc doesn't have any of my real info associated with it.

Bitcoinfog and many other tumblers have a clearnet site.

I am not FBI or any other LE

Also you only have 2 wait for 3 confirmations to withdraw the btc. All accounts are activates as soon as it sees a transaction with enough value to your entry-fee address.0 confirmations You can send as much as your want when sending the entry fee as long as it is over 0.01 BTC, any extra gets credited to your account. So if you wanted to you could send the money you want to helix withdraw as your entry fee and in 3 confirmations your account will be activated and have your money ready to withdraw.


[2 Points] gramsadmin:

On a side note there is a phishing scam going around covering a wide range of darknet sites and markets. They are proxying the real sites so even 2-fa auth doesn't help. The even have a fake hidden wiki which they tried to submit to grams which has all their fake urls in it. ofc I didn't allow grams to index it. Make sure when going to grams or any other darknet site to check the url for grams it is grams7enufi7jmdl.onion or to be sure about any site use gramsflow.com

I am working on a way to stop the tunneling through. I hope silkroad and agora and the other ones I have seen them do this to are working n the same thing.


[2 Points] AgoraMarket:

"Is /u/gramsadmin an FBI agent, trying to simplify his job"

Truthfully, you can ask the same thing about BitcoinFog and BitBlender. It would be trivial for any tumbler operator to trace your coins.

Really, any onion site with unknown admins, from tumblers to markets... it's impossible to prove a negative. You can't prove that any of these places aren't just large LE fronts.


[1 Points] ciphersexual:

Thanks for this review.