OK so now that we understand what mixers are and why we might want to use them in this lecture I want
to show you how to actually use one to break the connection between transactions and use bitcoin in
a more anonymous manner.
I'm going to use a mixer called Mixed them.
In this example but using these mixers is pretty much the same.
So by the end of this lecture you should be able to apply this knowledge to use any mixer you want.
So we're going to click on mix my coins to start mixing and as you can see right now it's asking us
for the address that will receive the payments.
So this is the address of the second wallet of this wallet right here.
And this is an extra option that we have here and mixed them where we can actually add another address.
So we receive the coins in two different addresses.
Again making it even more difficult to track what I'm just going to use one address.
So I'm sending coins to this wallet as you can see the balance is zero.
And in order to receive coins in here as shown before we go to the received tab and we cope with the
address here I'm going to paste it and send it as you can see right now it's telling us that we should
send the money to this address.
Now this is the address of mixed home the address of the mixer.
So what we're doing right here.
This is the address of this right here.
And what we're going to do is we're going to transfer money from our first wallet to the mixer and then
the mixer will do its magic mix in our coins and finally forward the coins to the address that we already
gave it the address of the first wallet.
So what I need to do right now is copy this and go to the wallet that I want to send money from which
is this wallet right here.
As you can see the balance is to micro bitcoins.
We're going to go on send.
We're going to set the pay to address to the address of the mixer.
You can set a description.
It doesn't really matter.
I'm going to send the maximum possible amount and I'm going to keep the feed the same.
Now you want to keep in mind you send more than the minimum allowed amount.
So if we go up to our mixer you can see the minimal allowed amount is zero point zero zero one bitcoin.
So multiply that by a thousand and that means one micro Bitcoin is the minimum amount that you can makes.
If you send less than that it will either be lost or considered as a donation the minimum amount differs
depending on the mixer you're using.
So whenever you're using a mixer make sure you're always send in more than the minimum amount so now
that we're happy with everything I'm going to click on send it's going to ask me for the password and
the payment is sent right now.
So if we look at my history you can see that the balance of this wallet is going to go down by minus
two micro bitcoins.
But if you look at the history here we still don't see the unconfirmed transaction.
Remember previously when we transferred money between two wallets we immediately saw that the receiving
wallet received an unconfirmed transaction.
And after a while this transaction became confirmed.
Now we don't see it in this case because what we did right now we didn't send the money directly from
this wallet to this one right here.
We sent the money to the mixer right here the mixer is going to do its magic.
It's going to mix the bitcoins make it harder to trace and then and only then it will send it back to
the receiving wallet which is this one right here.
Now at the time of mixing differs depending on the mixer and depending on how it works with mixed them
it can take a maximum of six hours.
So you want to be patient with it until you receive the amount.
You might also receive the amount in smaller chunks.
So you might not receive the whole amount in one transaction.
So just be patient with it until you receive the full amount that you transferred.
And keep in mind that there is a transfer fee and there is a fee taken by the mixer.
Again dependent on the mixer itself OK.
Now I'm back at my retails machine.
Now this is actually after about 20 hours.
But if you look at the legacy wallet in here you can see that we received our coins here from the tumbler
so first we received one micro bitcoin and then we received zero point seven micro Bitcoin.
So as you can see it did not come as one full payment.
Now I know I said I'm back after more than 20 hours but if you look at the time of receiving this it's
only about three hours after the time when we sent the coins to the mixer.
So it took about three hours.
Like I said it can take a maximum of six hours for mixed them.
But the time very dependent on the mixer that you're using.
So right now the coins that we have in here and our John Wick wallet have been mixed and have been cleaned
and will be harder to trace than normal coins because we broke the connection from the previous wallet
that sent these coins.
Like I said this would make it harder to trace and make us more anonymous but it's still not the best
and the most ideal coin to use if anonymity and privacy are very important.
A better solution would be to use a coin that's designed from the ground up to be private and anonymous.
And we'll talk more about that in the next lectures.
I just wanted to cover this here because a lot of people and a lot of Web sites still use bitcoin because
bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency as we all know.