mixer
- noun
- /ˈmɪksər/
- NSFW
- Using a reputable mixer can help protect your financial information when trading digital currencies.
Examples
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Investigators traced funds, but the suspect used a mixer to anonymize the crypto transactions.
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Some exchanges refuse deposits that have passed through a known mixer because of money-laundering risks.
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Privacy advocates argue a mixer can protect legitimate users from surveillance while critics warn of abuse.
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The mixer anonymizes cryptocurrency transactions.
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Many people use a mixer for better privacy.
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The online mixer allows users to enhance their privacy by obscuring their cryptocurrency transactions.
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Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts rely on a mixer to make their transaction history harder to trace.
Compounds
A kitchen machine that mixes food ingredients using electricity, like cake batter or cream
A machine with a large rotating drum that makes concrete from cement, sand, and water
- Specialized
A machine with a large rotating drum that mixes cement, sand, gravel, and water to make building material
- Specialized
A machine with a fixed bowl and a moving arm that mixes dough and batter
How Private
- NSFW
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mixer comes from the root mix, from an old Latin word miscere meaning 'to mix'. In cryptocurrency a mixer is a service that mixes transactions to hide links between senders and receivers, so the name explains that it 'mixes' money flows to make them hard to follow.