This is the first time I am reading about dakar. Thanks for sharing the link. Although such analysis won't work for payment pools (with musig+pre-signed txs or covenants).

One thing that gave me some hope is that this software wouldn't necessarily disentangle payjoins.

Payjoin can also reveal the amount transacted, change address etc. if not done correctly. Also it involves different trade-offs in which recipient has to share the UTXOs with the sender.

others see it as the thin end of the wedge that leads to transaction censorship via recursive covenants.

Makes no sense.

Taproot's privacy benefits were universal; CTV's benefits are mostly for infrastructure operators.

This is not true. In fact, CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY improves coinjoin and privacy.

Re-signed: https://github.com/OpenSats/website/pull/534#issuecomment-3648054384

The last 3 re-signings were done on the 1st day of each month. I would be surprised if @dergigi forgot to do it in November and 12 days have already passed in December as well.

Cashu is custodial trash promoted by clowns.

The bounty is based on their limited budget and not the severity of the vulnerability.

I can't find it on delvingbitcoin.

Learn to appreciate the research, so that others will be motivated to do it when you find problems with an implementation or protocol.

Thanks for adding joinstr :)

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Obviously, the inputs and outputs must make sense from the privacy standpoint in terms of amounts - there can’t be 0.8 BTC output which would be easily linked to User C. The coordinator’s task would be to identify such cases and reject them.

It is even possible to do it with equal size outputs. No change amounts involved in the coinjoin transaction. No coordinator required.

Joinstr protocol allows users to create pools with custom denominations and number of peers.

In some cases it's better to avoid paying third parties in coinjoin transactions. Payjoin or Octojoin works better in such situations because less or no coordination and transactions look normal.

I just tried it. This tool does not trace anything.

Thank you for building statechainjs 🙏

Everything looks good except ecash DLCs. There is no point in introducing another third party.

There are no hardcoded relays used for bootstrapping.

Joinstr will use aut-ct for sybil resistance. Recently waxwing fixed some things to make python bindings possible and will be added in next release of electrum plugin.

Joinstr actually works and has no directory nodes like joinmarket or fidelity bonds requirement.

Wasabi is the worst possible way to do coinjoin.

Cringe