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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Oldtoker on February 10, 2012, 09:03 am
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I had used Bitcoinfog but, they have been down for a while. Does anyone happen to know why?
What Mixing Services do you recommend?
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Not completely sure, but I've read mention of instawallet? One thing to make note of with instawallet is that they generate you a URL or something. If you lose the URL you lose your bitcoins; there's no way for them to get it back for you and I saw a post the other day about someone who said they accidentally closed a tab to the instawallet that they thought they had bookmarked.
Apparently they had a pretty big amount of bitcoins in it too which just vanished into the ether when they misclicked.
I saw someone else talk about bitcoinfog but I didn't like the idea of them taking 3-5% or whatever it was in order to mix your coins. Not sure if instawallet charges a fee. I've only had someone send me an instawallet URL so I could send their payment of bitcoins to my own wallet. Never used it myself other than that.
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instawallet isn't a mixing service. They just generate an online wallet for you.
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instawallet isn't a mixing service. They just generate an online wallet for you.
Which allows you to use it as some kind of mixing service, I guess.
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instawallet isn't a mixing service. They just generate an online wallet for you.
Which allows you to use it as some kind of mixing service, I guess.
Not really. A mixing service takes your BT's and BT's from a number of other people and puts them in the same pot. It then moves them around and divie's them back out in multiple increments. At least that's my understanding of how they work.
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I've used bitcoin for before - seemed to be quite good. Shame they're down.
Apparently SR has a mixing service built in. There would be a huge amount of coins in there to mix too!
Can we get more information/a link to this from the mods?
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Bump................