A mixer’s pool in miniature. A coin is fished out and you have to guess who threw it in. Your odds depend on how many people are in the pool and what sets them apart.
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From the book
Nobody Owns Money · Chapter 15
Tornado
Next to this experiment in the chapter
… Its creators called it a privacy tool, and in a world where every transfer is visible to everyone forever, honest people need privacy no less than crooks do. Nobody is obliged to show the whole internet their salary, a donation or a payment to a doctor. Honest people really did use the mixer. Only, by 2022, by the US Treasury’s count, more than $7 billion had passed through Tornado Cash, and among its biggest clients was the North Korean group Lazarus, which laundered through the pool more than $455 million stolen from the game Axie Infinity and other victims.