Quote from: lugabaruga on May 04, 2012, 09:05 amHey,Been lurking this thread past few days to get an idea of which way to go with BTC, just got a few questions...In terms of domestic Cash in the mail > BTC (assuming this all works out) what are the chances of tracing such a transaction? Is it worth running the coins through a few wallets/bitcoinfog BEFORE sending to SR once they have been transferred from another members intersango/mtgox to a bitcoin address of my choice?Hope you all understand where i'm coming from here!P.S. For arguments sake IF said vendor for BTC was working for LE is there anyway it is traceable in terms of BTC from their inter/mtgox account to a/my coin address? (Probably wearing my tin foil hat here, but better safe than sorry eh!)Thxlugabaruga ;)Hi buddy,There are only two near certain ways of obtaining BTC anonymously :- buying them using cash in the mail- selling goods for BTC.The process isn't anonymous end to end for the person selling you BTC but it doesn't need to be for your privacy to be protected.If a Police Officer were to pose as a BTC vendor it would do them very little good - the cash in the mail would tell them next to nothing except possibly the post office from which the package was sent. Any coins they then transferred could then be followed throughout the block chain but they'd have no way of knowing to whom the BTC had been transferred unless the person withdrawing them did so using a traceable method e.g to a bank account.This would still leave them with no evidence as to your identity as there'd be no definitive proof that the person withdrawing the coins was you - indeed since most people buy BTC in order to use them to buy products like controlled drugs, this needn't even worry you - let us sellers worry about ways to withdraw our BTC safely, you're using them to buy!V.