Intelligence works both ways.

Yes, Kruw. We want to scam other people's coins. That's exactly what we're doing in here.. This is our ultimate goal. Lol.  

The government targeted Chipmixer, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-investigation-leads-takedown-darknet-cryptocurrency-mixer-processed-over-3

The government targeted Alphabay, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down

The government targeted Bestmixer, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/multi-million-euro-cryptocurrency-laundering-service-bestmixerio-taken-down

This is why there's simply no point in responding to any of the "critics" in this thread that advertise mixing services in their signatures: They are not critical of Wasabi because they think it is bad or doesn't work, they are critical of Wasabi because their goal is to scam people out of their Bitcoins.  Since coinjoins are non custodial and Wasabi never reveals any data to any third parties, these scammers will tell any lie necessary about Wasabi in order to get people to give up control of their Bitcoin and make their data vulnerable to government seizure by using their "mixing service" instead.

The response to the reuse of the strawman argument is one of sarcasm. In the case of the instances where mixers are declined, the response is that you are informed beforehand that they are neither trustless nor non-custodial. It also requires a minimal level of intelligence to understand that they are not permanent since they are centralized in nature.

Confiscated, shut down etc.

Awful. But that's the price you have to pay when you trust your coins to some stranger.  You may never get them back.

As for data leaks, I have never used a mixer that was known to be a government honeypot, neither do I know of any such.

The government targeted Chipmixer, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-investigation-leads-takedown-darknet-cryptocurrency-mixer-processed-over-3

The government targeted Alphabay, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down

The government targeted Bestmixer, seizing user funds and data:

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/multi-million-euro-cryptocurrency-laundering-service-bestmixerio-taken-down

This is why there's simply no point in responding to any of the "critics" in this thread that advertise mixing services in their signatures: They are not critical of Wasabi because they think it is bad or doesn't work, they are critical of Wasabi because their goal is to scam people out of their Bitcoins.  Since coinjoins are non custodial and Wasabi never reveals any data to any third parties, these scammers will tell any lie necessary about Wasabi in order to get people to give up control of their Bitcoin and make their data vulnerable to government seizure by using their "mixing service" instead.

You do have to pay that price if you don't want to do coinjoins but you want to have your coins mixed, and there are at least two reasons you might want that; mixing cost and effectiveness.

You also have to pay that price if the coinjoin company that provides sufficient liquidity thinks you're naughty, which hasn't happened with mixers I've used to use so far.

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There is no evidence of ChipMixer being a honeypot. The Justice department page just says they've taken it down. No data leaks as far as we can tell.

On 15 March, national authorities took down the infrastructure of the platform for its alleged involvement in money laundering activities and seized four servers, about 1909.4 Bitcoins in 55 transactions (approx. EUR 44.2 million) and 7 TB of data.

They do provide privacy, but not as much as with the methods that involve absence of transaction connection. ChipMixer was giving you chips that were generated before you deposit, and contained no connection with your deposit. That was better than with coinjoin.

Forfeiting the privacy in a third party is exactly what privacy stands for; selectively revealing your activity to the world. I don't care if I reveal my activity to some mixer, as long as I keep it private from the people I exchange bitcoin for, and from those that I spend it on.

Because, almost every exchange I've known cooperates with blockchain analysis firms, and tries to de-anonymize every activity related to you. But, using a decentralized exchange (like Bisq) to do BTC <-> XMR swap may not be a bad idea.

The tl;dr is that it's a lot less effective and more expensive.

MixTum can confiscate your funds and turn over your data to the government when you trust them with your "naughty" coins: