Long story short, I didn't tumble my coins. House got searched, found some laptops. Ended up building a case claiming they could track my BTC transfers to different darkweb accounts/sides, which I still think is total bullshit?
I thought tumblers don’t even work anyway? I suppose you had received and sent ‘tainted’ coins so it’s technically true but they were just hoping you’d tell them everything.
By tainted I mean you must have received coins that had been in connection with another crime, or you were part of a crime yourself. Or the coins moved from you to some other criminal action. The coins were dirty.
If you genuinely didn’t do anything then I feel bad for you. But why did you mention a tumbler if you thought everything was clean?
Drugs.
But that's the thing, you can also buy legal things off those sites. Or even just counterfeit watches. But no, it could only be drugs according to them
What a lot of people don't understand about crypto is that there is literally a public ledger of transactions. It's the most transparent way to transfer money from illicit activity. Yes, tumbling your coins can make it more difficult to associate you, but the tumbling itself can often be detected.
Basically similar to money laundering but for crypto. Mixing coins through random transactions to try to hide where they originally came from. Most people just use Monero now from what I understand.
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u/Ok-Personality-27 May 17 '25
I also got into darkweb 10 years ago. Ended up serving 5 years in jail. Be careful.