Everyone has a different point of view, but I don't consider Bitcoin Mixers and Gambling to be bad acts because of privacy and passion.
People gamble for fun, while others gamble for a high return in a short period of time, taking a very high risk in the process.
While people use mixers to get fully secured, mixers also provide us with privacy, and according to the Bitcoin rule of anonymity, mixers are excellent tools to use in order to achieve that anonymity in Bitcoin.


Well yes! Because we do reveal our privacy in form of KYC for centralized exchanges which is very wrong.


Centralized exchanges are very useful, especially when purchasing Bitcoin if you are unable to obtain it through peer-to-peer trading, and it also increases the rate of Bitcoin adoption in some parts of the world because some people find out about Bitcoin through CEX.
The main risk is leaving your Bitcoin in their custody; you should move your Bitcoin to personal wallets rather than leaving them in the exchange.

Due to the drawbacks that the majority of people focus on and the historical component of what has occurred, which links gambling and crypto mixing with illegal or immoral acts, these activities are constantly viewed as bad actors in the cryptocurrency sector.
My sense is that gambling is not just viewed negatively in the crypto realm; it is also negatively viewed in real life owing to religious beliefs, people's personal experiences, and other factors.
However, the bad actors in gambling are usually those who abuse and lose control of the buzz, which typically results in addiction, debt, and even potential fraud issues. Additionally, gamblers have the potential to abuse fiat currency or cryptocurrencies to start their addiction, which would theoretically result in sizable financial losses.

In my opinion, it is not the same for several reasons.
Firstly, since exchanges go and will continue to go with automated software to check the blockchain path of the deposits, they can adjust their filters to check on deposits as small as they consider to be necessary. Unlike cash.

I can go with a 100$ bill to buy anything and that is okey, it may be different on exchanges.

Also, if I was a drug lord and I deposited 20$ to Binance I could get flagged, if the funds came from the bulk of the illegally obtained satoshis, on the other hand in the same situation, I could take a 20$ from the mountain of dirty money in my narco bunker and buy something with it and no reasonable human being would check for the bill serial number in a data base before selling me a pizza.

 

Things are bad only when you use it for a bad purpose. Nothing is bad unless it is used in such a way that to people it seems bad. Same could be said about all mentioned things in this OP.  
Mixing is a way to preserve your privacy and to keep yourself safe. But when you combine that with criminal acts, it becomes bad. Same thing with gambling. As long as it doesn't become an addiction, it's all fun and game.
Now to think that if centralized exchanges are as bad as those two examples. It is possible, because as I said before, when you use it for a bad cause, it is bad. And to think it in other way, bitcoin is decentralized and should not be kept in centralized exchanges. Bitcoin looses its whole purpose, and are you really hodling your BTC when you keep them in CEX? It is not your coin until you withdraw it in a personal decentralized wallet.

do take note that one of the old use cases of crypto or btc in particular is in the field of gambling business. just look at primedice, freebitco and other old gambling sites. i guess some of the old time crypto users have gone into crypto owed to these gambling sites.
also do remember that gambling even without crypto exist long time ago. so this is just another facet of crypto usage.

Gambling is not liked in every country in the world. It is not specific to bitcoin. In some countries, gambling is completely forbidden. In my country for example, only the games provided by the government is allowed. Bitcoin is opening up a great opportunity to the people that don't want to get robbed by the government. I said this before, bitcoin's best use case is probably gambling. Because of that reason, it will never die.

Mixing coins on the other hand is a gray area. You may want to stay anonymous and there is nothing wrong with that. However, other people that use these mixing services might not be that innocent. And you don't know if you are getting their dirty coins or not. I am not really a fan of them.

Bitcoin decentralized network makes it difficult for governments to trace the owner of transactions that is carried out. So many investors who are into illegal activities has used this opportunity to carry out the illegal activities through gambling and mixers,this doesn't mean that this line of businesses are bad actors.  We shouldn't use the sin of one man to condemn everyone because they are still many honest and upright bitcoin investors who gamble with Bitcoin and also secure their bitcoin transaction privacy with a mixer. There are also many bad actors who uses fiat for money laundering and drug trafficking, who haven't been caught by the government or are backed up by the government. It is not bitcoin that is the problem but the individuals that are involved in these illegal activities. As long as we are human,illegal activities is a most,due to greed and the eagerness to get fast money.

In my opinion, Mixing, on the other hand, is a technique used to obfuscate the source of funds, which goes against the principles of transparency and traceability within the Bitcoin network. While these activities are not inherently bad, they are often associated with criminal behavior and can tarnish Bitcoin's reputation as a legitimate asset.

heres what most people dont know

when using a mixer yes you are flagged but its not a yes/no flag. its a number/%.. they are not interested in getting a human involved to do an investigation at business(CEX) level unless said number/% reaches a threshold. but they do put you on a certain level of evolved algos to monitor different thresholds more. monitor customers more as each threshold passes
up to a point where thresholds reach a certain level where they would then try to gain more info about you

for instance it costs a bit of money to buy data from other partners/businesses they know/associate with. so they wont waste money buying all details of everyone(unless they are bulk data dealers)

so if your just depositing $10 they wont waste $1 trying to find if you have other accounts on other CEX and your flag rating on those services. however the more you do the more thresholds you reach the more intensive their scrutiny becomes

so someone that is high percentage normal coin movements small percentage mixed several taints back is a lower risk threshold than someone who puts all their funds through a mixer before then depositing into an exchange

and if the value of highly mixed deposits is high enough to breach tax thresholds and border crossing thresholds then they start to gather more information and do investigations. and if in those investigations they see some criminal tracings of funds they report it to authorities
they wont reveal all the thresholds of each level but atleast knowing that they dont investigate everyone is obvious because to watch everyone takes many many people and most businesses and authorities do not have enough personnel to watch everyone

meaning that "government" dont see or watch or receive data about everyone. just the interesting highly suspect stuff that reached a certain threshold that has met some standards regulators require

and regulators in formal legislation DO class using mixers as a red flag. meaning the more you use it the higher the intensity is of being on watch lists where actual humans start investigating. compared to someone just depositing $100 or $10 a week into an exchange from their own employment income accounts

I don't like to say that these two services are actors who tarnish the good name of bitcoin, but both of these services can be abused by bitcoin users. The real actors are bitcoin users who intend to carry out illegal transactions by utilizing the two services above, so the two services cannot be blamed entirely.

Governments and people who hate bitcoin are of course taking advantage of this situation to their advantage and rule. But nevertheless I think it is their right regardless if the plan works or not. I honestly don't hate the government if its goal is to prevent abuse, but underneath it all I think they are just plotting something to hurt bitcoin and its users financially.