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that you want to buy something off of or trade with? As you probably know by now, every
single transaction is tracked on BlockChain.info.
So you have Bitcoins sitting in your wallet, and if you send them to somebody else, it will
show up on BlockChain exactly where you sent them. A couple of things to keep in mind.
1. You purchased your Bitcoins from somebody or something. They may have kept a
record of the wallet those coins were sent to.
2. If you dealt with a law enforcement or somebody trying to track you, then they can
track where the coins are sent after you forward them to somebody else.
Right now the best method of trying to lose this trail is using something called a mixer or
a tumbler. You can think of this like throwing your Bitcoins into a giant pile of coins with
other users and then withdrawing them at a later time from the mixer. If you threw in 1
Bitcoin and pulled out 1 Bitcoin, think of all the other people who did the exact same
thing. Possibly thousands of others withdrawing 1 Bitcoin from the exact same pile of
coins. It has now become much harder for you to be linked to those coins. Then on top of
that, maybe you do not withdraw 1 Bitcoin, maybe you only withdraw 0.5 Bitcoin right
now and leave the other 0.5 Bitcoin in the pile. It becomes even harder to link those
Bitcoins to you.
One website that does this is called BitcoinFog and can be found on a clearnet URL and a
hidden services URL.
http://www.bitcoinfog.com/
http://fogcore5n3ov3tui.onion/
BitcoinFog has been around for a while now and most people seem happy with the service
they provide, so I would come to think that they are a trustworthy service. The way they
work is as I mentioned above, and on top of that the service takes 1%-3% (randomized for
obscurity) fee on each deposit. So you may put in 1.0 Bitcoins and take out 0.97 Bitcoin
after fees and it mixes things up. You can also decide when you might want to withdraw it,
whether it is in a month, week, days, and so forth. This is a good service to use and
definitely mixes things up for you. The only thing you need to keep in mind, is that there
is a trail of you sending your coins into BitcoinFog, which some people may or may not
find suspicious. But what you do with your coins after BitcoinFog is going to be
extremely difficult to track, if not impossible due to the vast number of transactions that
are occurring in and out of BitcoinFog.
When you withdraw your coins from BitcoinFog, please make sure you send them to
a new wallet, and not the same wallet that you used to deposit them into BitcoinFog.
Another option you can have when withdrawing the coins from BitcoinFog, is to get
BitcoinFog to withdraw the coins directly to the person you want to buy something from.
This takes the step of creating a new wallet and then having to forward it on and will keep
things again extremely hard to track. Just keep their transaction fees in mind to make sure
your desired seller is going to receive the correct amount of Bitcoins needed for the
purchase or exchange.
Two other options you can use are provided by Blockchain.info and can be accessed by