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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kruw 25 Jun \ on: Bitcoin Privacy Tips and Tricks bitcoin
Humbled to see Wasabi Wallet mentioned :)
Also, here's the video link without the metadata tracker on the end - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Acfj4SO6g
Samourai's client would collect user xpub addresses and IP addresses by default - https://web.archive.org/web/20230417145554/https://code.samourai.io/wallet/samourai-wallet-android/-/issues/458
Ashigaru says their mobile client is Tor only and requires running your own node - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5509931.0
However, this Sparrow fork doesn't enforce the node - "The default mainnet public Electrum servers that are connected to on startup are .onion URLs to preserve user privacy."
Another example: if you used a specific coordinator to do coinjoins, you might think your anonymity set is all coinjoins arranged by that coordinator. However, if the legal names of the people who run the coordinator are known and they happen to keep logs of the coordinator at their place of business or residence, it might not be that difficult for an attacker to raid them and seize such logs. In which case your anonymity set is significantly less than you thought.
Clients are designed not to share any data with coinjoin coordinators. However, an operator could keep logs of metadata (timing of registrations/deregistrations), which is why you should avoid failing too many rounds.
Nearly every experience I have with AI is bad, whether it's ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok. If they would just reply with "I don't know" instead of spewing bullshit, it would be somewhat useful.
I have an ever expanding list of movies and TV shows that I will never watch. I used to have a nice collection of Bitcoin stickers, but I stuck them to my refrigerator at my last apartment.
Silent Payments is a good thing to be working on, but I find it strange that the grantee has less than 6 months of Github activity.
Self custody isn't "instantly perfect", it's literally the bare minimum that has to take place in order for someone to actually become a new Bitcoiner.
If I were to be a snob about it, I would insist they run a full node first.
Self custody is a non negotiable starting point, so Phoenix fills that requirement while providing the best UX. I would probably avoid onboarding someone directly onto Lightning unless I know they will need to make small payments in the near future.
It doesn't look like Arch is officially supported - https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/blob/master/WalletWasabi.Documentation/WasabiCompatibility.md
But I'm glad it works anyway :)
Coordinators can no longer charge coinjoin fees since the release of Wasabi v2.2.0. However, coordinators can still earn sats by consolidating the dust amounts created by each user. https://liquisabi.com tracks the total for each round.
As a general rule, each additional UTXO you consolidate will decrease your privacy by some marginal amount. It's hard to give precise guidance since the observation model is different for whales vs small users and different for coordinators with large liquidity vs small liquidity.
If you start with only a single UTXO, there's a special case that triggers called Safety Coinjoins that will perform an extra remix for all of the outputs created in the initial round.
You can go to the wallet settings button from the ". . ." menu in the top right and check the coinjoin tab. Here you can increase the "Anonymity Score Target" number if you want to reduce your privacy progress below 100% again to participate in more transactions.