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Re:JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges by selsta on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:20AM (#23165376)
See the following tweet by the author:

“Compared to privacy coins Wasabi is just a temporary hack. I think without Confidential Transactions, as the transaction fees grow, privacy will be priced out of Bitcoin's main chain.”

https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1147497731147149312

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Re:JPMorgan Extends Banking Services to Bitcoin Exchanges by nullc on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:25AM (#23167178)
In the specific context of coinjoin confidential transactions has the benefit of at most halving the amount of transactions needed to get privacy by eliminating the need to match values. I think that comment is overstating the limitations there.
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