{"id":33795,"date":"2020-12-22T15:43:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33795"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:40:03","slug":"report-bitcoins-worth-1-4-billion-moved-through-mixers-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-bitcoins-worth-1-4-billion-moved-through-mixers-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bitcoins worth $1.4 billion moved through mixers in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, bitcoins worth $1.4 billion were sent to mixing services. This is $500 million higher than the previous year, according to a report from Crystal Blockchain, a Bitfury Group platform.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Crystal\u2019s End of Year Report 2020 is now available! Despite the number of industries put on pause due to the COVID19 pandemic, regulation for crypto continues to be a priority, &#038; the need for AML compliance tools remains high. Read the year in review here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iFAxZlQbZq\">https:\/\/t.co\/iFAxZlQbZq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q62fUW2EBA\">pic.twitter.com\/Q62fUW2EBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crystal Blockchain (@CrystalPlatform) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrystalPlatform\/status\/1341063891456057344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also this year, the total value of Bitcoin obtained by darknet actors rose by $300 million, reaching $1.6 billion, of which $533 million was sent from exchanges.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120271\" style=\"width: 3488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120271\" class=\"wp-image-120271 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379.png\" alt=\"\u041e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442: \u0432 2020 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0443 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437 \u043c\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0435\u0440\u044b \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430 $1,4 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434\" width=\"3478\" height=\"1620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379.png 3478w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379-1024x477.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379-1536x715.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-379-2048x954.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3478px) 100vw, 3478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-120271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Crystal Blockchain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Darknet actors also predominantly sent cryptocurrency to exchanges without KYC procedures \u2014 46% of total transaction volume. They moved 13% of bitcoins to platforms with verification. The share of mixers stood at 20%, four times higher than in Q4 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120270\" style=\"width: 3488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120270\" class=\"wp-image-120270 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2.png\" alt=\"\u041e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442: \u0432 2020 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0443 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437 \u043c\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0435\u0440\u044b \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430 $1,4 \u043c\u043b\u0440\u0434\" width=\"3478\" height=\"1620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2.png 3478w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2-1024x477.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2-1536x715.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-1-2-2048x954.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3478px) 100vw, 3478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-120270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Crystal Blockchain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The aggregate value of bitcoins received by all virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in 2020 stood at $272.9 billion, versus $154.3 billion a year earlier. While the number of transactions declined from 120 million to 109 million, their average size rose, Crystal\u2019s analysts noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to a ForkLog poll, 95.5% of users <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-95-of-users-do-not-use-bitcoin-mixers\">do not use<\/a> mixing services.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, bitcoins worth $1.4 billion were sent to mixing services. This is $500 million more than the previous year, according to a report by Crystal Blockchain, a Bitfury Group platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2024,477,1256],"class_list":["post-33795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crystal","tag-darknet","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33797,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions\/33797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}