Mixing bitcoin using Whirpool can achieve anonymity. Here are a few tools to help maintain that privacy benefit when spending.Considerations should be made when spending Whirlpool unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) so that the anonymity benefits of mixing your bitcoin are kept intact. There are transaction tools that help you spend your post-mix bitcoin in a way that maintains anonymity, each tool offers...
Whirlpool gives a certain level of privacy when using bitcoin, and forward- looking anonymity sets are a measure of how well hidden you are.Let’s talk about Whirlpool “forward-looking anonymity sets” — the crowd in which you are hiding in.To date you may be familiar with the Whirlpool CoinJoin implementation which is available on the Samourai Wallet mobile app, or...
Donors to Canada’s Freedom Convoy should have used Whirlpool-mixed bitcoin to break deterministic links and provide forward-looking anonymity.All Bitcoin transactions are public, anyone can look at them. There is nothing special required to view every Bitcoin transaction that has ever occured — they are all publicly available on the blockchain. You don't need a node, just a simple block explorer website will...
Spats (short for Spark Assets) is a research paper by Firo. It extends Lelantus Spark to support confidential assets. It's in line with Firo's goal of giving anonymity to the whole cryptocurrency community. This Monday, Firo introduced Spats. Spats will serve as the base for FIRO's privacy infrastructure layer. Also, it will allow generating or transferring tokens from other chains. Imagine the following...
Bitcoin’s public and immutable nature necessitates the return of mixnets to achieve true network-level privacy. Source: Nym Technologies SA Bitcoin was initially thought by...
Bitcoin is not entirely anonymous. In reality, it is pseudonymous because each user has a public address that theoretically could be traced back to an IP address or exchange account (and by proxy, an actual identity) through proper network...
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