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user-inactivated  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire

keep in mind that bitcoin mixers make a point to not necessarily give you back the same coins that went in. tagging the coins would only reveal that they were in the mixer, and the person they end up with is only connected in the sense that they used the same mixer. yes, you have a problem when your input to the mixer severely dwarfs the rest of the pot, but as bigger mixers are implemented i imagine they'll keep a large amount of funds tumbling within the mixer at all times to mitigate that.

and things like zerocoin solve the problem entirely.