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Privacy tools
Privacy coins and mixers try to break the public trail. This course says what they are. It is not a guide to hiding money from the law.
What they are
A privacy coin hides amounts or participants better than a normal public chain. A mixer pools transfers so the trail is harder to follow. Both can fail, and both attract attention from exchanges and police.
What this is not
Do not use this page as instructions to launder money or to evade the law. Exchanges may freeze deposits that touched these tools. That freeze is the firm stopping the money.
If you need privacy from a company, start by not posting your address under your real name. That is not a mixer. It is hygiene.
Check yourself
Will an exchange always accept coins that came from a mixer?
No. They may freeze the deposit.
After this you can explain a privacy tool without using it as a hiding manual, and expect exchanges to refuse it.