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Y'all use any heuristic-breaking techniques or obfuscation against chainalysis?

1449 sats \ 6 comments \ @joda 12 Jun privacy

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I haven't gone off the deep end in terms of maintaining on-chain privacy. Haven't done a coinjoin or anything like that. Are there other basic principles you follow to maintain a little more privacy?

I was thinking about using a VPN when broadcasting transactions, not making lots of transactions one after the other, and obviously not combining a bunch of UTXOs willy-nilly, especially from KYC and non-KYC.

Not looking for total anonymity, and I don't want to make extra transactions if possible, just some simple guidelines for "somewhat improved" privacy.

Surprised I couldn't find a Darth guide on this.

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176 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 12 Jun

I guess it comes back to where you got the UTXO from. If it came from an exchange, you will be tracked until doing a coinjoin. No-KYC coins give you more freedom to consolidate, but are also traceable, it’s just that they aren’t yet linked to your name. Coinjoining fixes this.

However, if you don’t want to coinjoin, just open an unannounced LN channel and spend through that. Use 1 (larger) UTXO too. Learn how to fill it up again when your balance gets low.

126 sats \ 0 replies \ @travis 13 Jun

If you are planning on attending the Bitcoin Nashville conference this July, there will be a presentation/workshop in the Bitcoin Veterans Citadel section of the conference on on-chain tracing yourself and tips and techniques for privacy.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 13 Jun

None.

Just use coinjoin and/or lightning. No reason to waste your time for half-assed privacy.

86 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 12 Jun

I was thinking about using a VPN when broadcasting transactions

If you're broadcasting them through your own node, you may want to use Tor. If not, you should.

As for UTXO consolidation, I only consolidate UTXOs from the same source, if I do at all. None of them are KYC. "Same source" can be, for example, coinos.io or some other custodial but no-KYC service.

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 12 Jun

you could swap through liquid and lightning a bit

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 12 Jun

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