Several major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Paxful and Binance, have recently demonstrated their negative attitude to mixing services.
🤹♀️ A cryptocurrency mixing service (cryptocurrency tumbler, Bitcoin mixer) is a special tool intended to mix ‘tainted’ or pseudo-anonymous coins with others. It makes tracing their origin very hard. It should be noted that a BTC mixer is not always used for money-laundering and other criminal purposes. Some law-abiding people apply it just for the love of privacy.
🕵️♀️ Obviously, crypto exchanges seek to decrease the level of privacy in order to increase transparency and security. In such a way, they want to ensure better compliance with KYC/AML regulations and avoid getting involved with ‘dirty money’. As for exchange users, many of them don’t agree with this strategy and see it as an attempt to pry into their business.
The latest event of this kind involved Paxful exchange - they blocked the account of the user Ronald McHodled when he tried to withdraw his funds. The exchange support service was worried that Ronald had tried to withdraw the money to a well-known mixing service and demanded explanations.
🤷♂️ McHodled himself declares he did not use this mixing service for any bad purpose. According to him, it was like using an ATM for withdrawing cash.
And what do you think?
No comments:
Post a Comment