Circle.com and tumbling

So i purcahsed some btc from circle.com and I used credit card and before being able to enter card details it asks for last 4 digits of ssn number so i put it on and purchased the btc. after purchasing the btc i sent them to helix light to get tumble then from their to the market i am ordering stuff on? since i put my last 4 digits ssn is it a danger even after tumbling my coins or am i safe??


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[3 Points] samwhiskey:

BYHD,MTB


[2 Points] jerseyjunglejuice:

It's pretty much safe to assume that any coins you buy from sites like circle or coinbase are tied to your identity, and the last 4 of your ssn is just one of the many identifiers that circle has on you. If asked by law enforcement, circle could potentially use these identifiers to trace bitcoin used to buy drugs back to a person who bought those coins with fiat through circle.

However, with tumbling, it makes tracing funds from a drug purchase back to a public bitcoin market wallet like circle a whole lot harder. Does it make it impossible to tell who bought those coins? not exactly. Does it make it hard enough to do that LE won't waste their time and money performing complex analysis to catch a small time buyer? Probably.

The point of tumbling is to make a disconnect between your circle wallet that is tied to your identity and your DNM wallet that is anonymous, or your cold storage wallet that's only used to store tumbled coins.

Giving circle more of your identifiers shouldn't make you any less safe than if you didn't. While circle does know who you are, and can give information to LE if they are required to, the only thing they can tell them is that you bought some coins through them, then transferred those coins to a wallet owned by helix. If the tumbling is working as intended, they can't extrapolate any more information, as your coins are then mixed in with everybody else's that uses helix.


[1 Points] zee1000:

There is no connectino once you tumble. Also the last 4 of your SS is no worse then using your credit card, your account is essentially "dirty." Tumble and your good to go.