This Tool Can Protect Your Privacy When Using Bitcoin

This Tool Can Protect Your Privacy When Using Bitcoin

On-chain coinjoin is blended with off-chain coinswaps in this fascinating new hybrid approach.There is a new privacy tool coming to town: coinswaps on statechains. The original statechain design was proposed by Ruben Somsen at Scaling Bitcoin 2018 in Tokyo. I will summarize quickly, but Aaron van Wirdum has a very thorough explainer of the original concept here. The general idea is to have a facilitating entity (the statechain operator) create a 2-of-2 multisig address with a user to facilitate the off-chain transfer of a UTXO. The user then transfers their private key for the 2-of-2 to a....


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