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17 Dec

Bitcoin Mixer | Blender bitcoin | Blender btc | Bitcoin Mixer

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CoinMixer

CoinMixer is unique in the sense that it offers support for both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The site does not require registration and has a minimum deposit requirement of 0.2 BTC. Transaction fees range from 2 – 5% depending on the amount that is being transferred. There is no referral program offer for CoinMixer and multiple addresses are not supported. Finally, letters of guarantee are not provided.

Bitcoin Laundry

Bitcoin Laundry is one of the most pocket-friendly, easy to use and customizable Bitcoin laundry platforms in the industry. The user-interface is extremely simple and clean, anyone who has never before used any such service too can navigate around and tumble Bitcoins easily. No registration is required to mix Bitcoins on Blender.io Its “delay” feature lets you set delays from 1-24 hours which increases your anonymity by providing a gap between the deposited coins and the outgoing ones. As for the fee, it’s dynamic, meaning you get to choose the amount of fee you’d like to pay, the minimum fee being 0.5% and the maximum being 2.5% with an additional 0.0005%/address. It’s also one of the rare platforms which provides you with a mixing code which makes sure your previous coins do not get mixed with your newer deposits if you do multiple deposits to the tumbler. The minimum amount you can mix is 0.001BTC while there’s no specific maximum amount as their Bitcoin reserve seems to be quite large. It also has a No Logs Policy and all data is instantly deleted as soon as a transaction is complete; and as for the number of confirmations required it’s 3 for your deposit to be mixed by Bitcoin Laundry It supports 8 addresses for each mix so you can further increase your anonymity. In a nutshell, it gives you the power to choose, is fast, anonymous and totally worth a try. It also supports Segwit and bech32 Addresses, with some terms attached. For e.g. only witness version bech32 addresses are supported. Similarly, only the addresses starting with the number “3” are supported.

Mycryptomixer

Mycryptomixer supports Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrencies bearing no logs policy. It requires a minimum deposit of 0.001 BTC and the transaction fee is 0.5% plus 0.0001BTC for each Extra Address. It supports multiple addresses of up to 5 and requires confirmation from 2 till 30. No registration is required and it does offer a referral program. Thus, one needs to wisely choose bitcoin scramblers based on their reliability and user base. All the online transactions come with some percentages of risk. But if you use one of the listed crypto mixers, it will clean your coins in a much better way.

BitMix

In the past, BitMix was one of the most popular Bitcoin mixers available in the cryptocurrency world. The first of its kind, this bitcoin mixer was shut down temporarily before returning to limited service. Nowadays, BitMix is primarily used to facilitate anonymous individual transactions.

ChipMixer

Grams itself is a brand on the Darknet so I believe not much needs to be said about it. Grams Helix is one of its subsidiaries and is one of the most reputed and widely used ChipMixer services out there, it’s simple, modern, and definitely trustworthy. Grams supports only Bitcoins for now. It needs 2 confirmations before it cleans and sends you your coins. It obviously supports time-delay, but it’s automatically set to “2 hours” for some reasons. It also supports “Random transactions” for the deposit, the deposit address changes after each transaction and allows you to send more than 1 transactions to Grams Helix instead of sending in all your coins in a single go. The same is also supported for the “output addresses” (where you receive coins) and you can input as many as 5 different BTC addresses where your coins are sent after cleaning them. The coin-deposit address is valid for 8 hours, and any transaction not done within these 8 hours won’t be received by the platform.

Bestmixer

Bestmixer has a simple interface, it is easy to use and simple. Time-delay option can be set up to 24 hours. With regard to the fee, there is an additional fee of 0.0005 % per output address. As one of the few, this cryptocurrency tumbler provides a user with a special mixing code which guarantees that fresh crypto coins are not blended with previous deposits. Additional URL Blender is also here to guarantee that users can get to the tumbler, even if the main link is not working.

Best bitcoin mixer

Best bitcoin mixer only supports Bitcoin transactions and requires customers to deposit a minimum of 0.001 BTC. Transaction fees range from 0.5 to 3% depending on the amount that is being transferred. This Bitcoin mixer supports multiple addresses and custom options (max of 10). Nonetheless, confirmation is required. Best bitcoin mixer does not have a referral program in place.

MixTum

MixTum is a very impressive service if you want to maintain your anonymity when you make purchases online. It can also be useful if you want to do p2p payments and donations. The service is used to mix a person’s funds and give this person some fresh bitcoins. The focus here is on making sure that the blender has the ability to confuse the trail as somebody could try to figure out the source. The best mixer is that one that keeps your anonymity at a max. You want each bitcoin transaction to be very hard to trace. This is where using our bitcoin mixing service makes a lot of sense. Protect your income and personal information becomes much easier. The reason why you want to use our service is because you want to hide your coins from hackers and third-parties. They can do a blockchain analysis, they may be able to track your personal data to steal your bitcoins. With our bitcoin tumbler, you don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Coinomize

Two cryptocurrencies are also supported on Coinomize mixing service. This scrambler is listed because it works quickly and it is reliable. The transaction fee is really low, only the amount of 0.0001 BTC needs to be sent for every extra address. Splitting deposited coins between 5 addresses is also extremely helpful for keeping user’s anonymity. Every user is able to choose an additional option of delaying the payment meaning that the transaction is becoming even more anonymous.

SmartMixer

SmartMixer works by removing the link between your old and current addresses. Since the mixer destroys any connection between them, your traces of transactions and your identity become untraceable. The main advantage is the low commission. Bitcoin Laundry is a donation platform. They charge no service fees, only a transaction fee of 0.0002 BTC to the exit address, while transactions from 0.0005 to 38 BTC are supported. You can set 5 addresses and specify what percentage of the total amount will be returned to each address. You can select predefined or random payment delays for each address, making it even more difficult to track the transaction. Bitcoin Laundry boasts a “no log” retention period policy and also allows users to manually delete logs with just one click if they wish.

Blender bitcoin

Blender bitcoin is an extremely basic mixer. It allows only 1 output address to be specified. The UI too is extremely simple and doesn’t feature any sliders or calculators. Users simply enter their output address and receive the funds as simple as that. The minimum mix amount is 0.001BTC while the maximum is 100BTC. Amounts out of these limits will not be mixed. Users have no control on the fee and it’s randomized between 0.5% and 1%. An additional 0.0005 BTC miner fee also exists. The time-delay too (if any) isn’t user controlled and the mixer sends out funds at its own pace. Its working infrastructure seems to differ from other mixers out there. While most other mixers have a “reserve”, this platform seems to use miners. The unclean coins are sent to “miners”, and the clean coins too are claimed to be sent out from “miners”. It however doesn’t keep any logs and all information is deleted once a transaction is complete.

CryptoMixer

Compared to other Bitcoin tumblers, CryptoMixer stands out from the crowd thanks to the additional anonymity offered. Users are given the option to split and merge coins into different wallets to various addresses. Additionally, CryptoMixer provides support for unlimited addresses and does not require user registration. Although only Bitcoin is supported and there are no referral programs, ChipMixer does not charge users with any service fees. With the option to donate BTCs being made available.

Bitcoinmixer.io

And last but not least, there is a coin mixer with a number of cryptocurrencies to tumbler named Bitcoinmixer.io. At the moment, there are three currencies and Ethereum is going to be represented in future. This mixer offers a very simple user-interface, as well as the opportunity to have control over all steps of the mixing process. A user can select a delay not just by hours, but by the minute which is very useful. The tumbler gives the opportunity to use a calculator to understand the amount of money a user finally receives. The service fee is from 1 % to 5 % with fees for extra addresses (0.00045529 BTC, 0.01072904 LTC, and 0.00273174 BCH). Having funds from different resources helps the crypto mixer to keep user’s personal information undiscovered. This last mixer does not offer its users a Letter of Guarantee.

We’ve talked numerous times about the role social media will play in the job search for student-athletes. It’s something we talk about often during our sessions with student-athletes, because they have to be thinking long-term. Social Media isn’t a toy to play with, it’s a tool that significantly impact their present and future – if they know how to use it well.

Jobvite released the results of their 6th annual social recruiting survey, and the numbers can’t be ignored. Let’s look at a few key stats.

94% of companies use or plan to use social media for recruiting. That’s nearing universal adoption. If your student-athletes want to know what jobs are available, they need to be following and interacting with companies on their various social media outlets.

78% of companies have hired somebody through social media. We often hear the horror stories about how somebody lost their job because of a post on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, but you don’t usually hear the good news. A majority of companies have hired somebody through social media. For student-athletes, that requires a plan. How will you get noticed? How will you present yourself online in a way that impresses job recruiters and not your friends? For educators, this is why social media education is much more than just “don’t tweet this because you’ll get in trouble.” Sure they can stop using profanity and tweeting pictures of alcohol, but what are they doing to add value?

93% of recruiters will look at a candidate’s social media profiles. We all know somebody that has lost out on a job because of something they’ve put on social media. They just don’t know it, because the recruiter doesn’t inform them. At most, they get an email stating that the company, “is going a different direction” in their recruiting efforts. Then they continue to use social media the same way, never knowing what their poor decisions are costing them. And we have to get away from statements like, “social media cost them a job.” Social Media didn’t cost them anything – their own decisions cost them a job. Twitter didn’t make them send that profanity-laced tweet, and Instagram didn’t make them upload that racy picture.

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09 Nov

Are your student athletes tweeting for the future?

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It is not just students and student-athletes who are using social media. Look around you and you will notice the real world is also using it. Employers, entrepreneurs, teachers, salespersons, real estate agents, even The Pope. Many athletic administrators and coaches are active online. At the time of this writing, 19 of the coaches of the BCS Top 25 football teams had an active Twitter account (meaning they had tweeted within a few days).

We are living in the midst of a social, connection economy. For the first time in recorded history we have the ability to connect with almost anybody on the planet – for free. That is what social media is. An incredibly powerful tool that connects us with like-minded people around the world. Seth Godin, in his book The Icarus Deception, has this to say about the internet and social media:

The Internet wasn’t built to make it easy for you to watch Lady Gaga videos. The Internet is a connection machine, and anyone with a laptop or a smartphone is now connected to just about everyone else.

And it turns out that those connections are changing the world.

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25 Oct

Should you promote your student-athletes’ Twitter handles?

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One of the great debates in college sports is whether or not athletic departments should promote the social media handles/usernames of their student-athletes. It came up again this week on a wonderful Google+ Hangout hosted by Derrick Docket of the Missouri Valley Conference, as well as during the #smsportschat Twitter chat last night.

Arguments are intense on both sides of the debate, with some thinking it’s absolutely wonderful and others believing it is an invasion of privacy and will lead to all sorts of death and destruction.

The truth? There’s no right answer. It’s completely up to each department and student-athlete (one non-negotiable: get the student-athlete’s approval). You have to determine what’s best for your program. Let’s look, however, at some pro’s and con’s.

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24 Oct

What kind of legacy are you building online?

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Twitter isn’t yet 8 years old (founded March 2006). Facebook is nearing it’s 10th birthday in February.

YouTube is almost 9.

Instagram just turned 3 this month.

It’s pretty incredible how young and new social media is, yet how much of an impact it has had on our world. What that also means is that, for many of us, we are the beginning of our family tree when it comes to the digital age. For student-athletes, we often talk about what kind of identity they are building online. What type of first impression they are creating.

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07 Oct

For student athletes, social media is the new first impression

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First impressions. We’ve all been told how important they are in life. Whether you’re gearing up for a job interview, giving a speech or headed out on a blind date, first impressions matter. As with many things, social media has changed the format of first impressions. In the other scenarios, you are (hopefully) prepared for your encounter. You’ve thought through your words, your appearance, every last detail. You know your audience and, as much as you can, you control the situation. With social media, all of this is happening online – many times before offline interaction takes place.

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Social Media is the new first impression. صور الكونكر Want to know what somebody is like? Head to their Twitter, Instagram or Facebook accounts. How do they feel about certain issues? How do they communicate in public? What are their hobbies and passions? All of that can be found in a matter of minutes.

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02 Oct

How do we define “inappropriate” for student athletes on social media?

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“Don’t tweet something inappropriate.”
“Clean up the inappropriate pictures from your Instagram account.”
“Employers will reject your resumé if you have inappropriate posts on Facebook.”

Inappropriate is a word that is thrown out often when it comes to student-athletes and social media. The problem, and something we address in our social media education sessions with student-athletes, is in defining inappropriate. Many times, this is impacted by your age.

What’s inappropriate to a 40-year-old hiring manager is most likely not considered inappropriate to a college student.

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01 Oct

How to make your Facebook profile private

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People want access to student-athletes. Whether it’s following them on Twitter, friending them on Facebook, or calling them. But what access should be allowed? When you ‘friend’ somebody on Facebook, you allow them to see a significant amount of personal information, including: email address, phone number, birthdate, friends, relationship status, family history, calendar of events. – not to mention every picture and video you appear in.

If you don’t know somebody, they have no right to view your personal information. It’s my personal strategy to not friend anybody on Facebook that I have not met in person. If you want to connect, follow me on Twitter. That’s as much access as you need until I determine otherwise.

It’s something we tell student-athletes in our social media education sessions. On private social media platforms, don’t friend/add people you don’t know. There’s no award handed out for the person with the most Facebook friends.

Some schools monitor their student-athletes’ social media activity, while others outsource it to firms like us. It’s an understandable strategy, but shouldn’t cross the line of invading privacy. With our monitoring service, we never access private information of student-athletes. Never.

Delaware, California and New Jersey have passed laws to prevent this, and other states are not far behind.(UPDATE: Oregon, New Mexico, Arkansas, Utah, Illinois, Michigan have now passed similar laws)

When it comes to monitoring, ask yourself, “Would I be ok with this if it were my 19 year old daughter being forced to friend and/or give some random company access to her private information?” The answer, of course, is no.

The problem is that most student-athletes simply don’t understand the available privacy settings or their rights. They should never be asked or forced to give access to their private accounts. For Facebook, here’s how they can make their profile private.

Note: this post has been updated to reflect Facebook’s rollout of Graph Search, effective October 2013

First, login to Facebook, click the on the padlock that now appears at the top right. This brings up the new privacy controls menu.

First up is “Who can see my stuff?”

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25 Jul

2 Questions to Guide Social Media Use of Student Athletes

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In a recent blog post, I wrote about how social media education is more than just what to tweet and what not to tweet. That it’s about leadership and character development. About helping student-athletes understand the impact of their decisions, both online and off. About giving student-athletes a purpose for using social media well, beyond simply avoiding a meeting with the coach or compliance department. When you strip it all down, for student-athletes (or anybody) to be “successful” on social media, they have to answer two questions:

Who am I?

What do I want to be known for?

That’s it. Those two questions direct and guide not just how you use social media, but how you live your life. Like an athlete, your strength comes from your core. These questions get to the core of who you are, guiding how you approach relationships, your work, your family . Social Media is just one piece of that puzzle. An extension of you.

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30 May

Social Media Education is More Than, “Tweet this, not that.”

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As social media continues to make it’s way into our everyday life, more schools are realizing the need for social media education – for both their student-athletes and their coaches/athletic staff. They are realizing that their student-athletes are an extremely public extension of the athletic department, with their tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram pics and even “disappearing” snaps available to the viewing public. Clearly this is a good thing, educational institutions investing in education. The problem has been in the approach. Too often, athletic departments have approached social media education from a compliance perspective. “Don’t tweet this, don’t post that, don’t do this, don’t get in trouble, don’t make a scene online, etc.” It’s essentially a surgeon general’s list of risks.

The problem with that approach is that warnings don’t result in productive behaviors. Telling a student-athlete what not to tweet isn’t the same as showing them what it means to use Twitter (or any other platform) well. I know not to take my eye off the ball during my golf swing on Pine Club Golf, but how can I actually improve my swing?

Social Media education for student-athletes is not a session on, “tweet this, not that.” Social Media education is about character development. It’s about understanding what it means to make good decisions on a daily basis, not just online but offline. It’s about realizing the impact that our decisions have, and that we have control over our reputation.

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