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Re:Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing a... by cowthulhu on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:20PM (#38372688)
Yeah, the key “innovation” of crypto tumblers is that funds end up in a different wallet than they came from. If the tumbler just spat the money back into the wallet the money came from, it wouldn’t be very useful.

But I suspect that as the accuracy of the analogy goes up, so too does the inherent sketchiness to the reader, which is probably not what the author wants.

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Re:Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing a... by tromp on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:15AM (#38377733)
> If the tumbler just spat the money back into the wallet the money came from, it wouldn’t be very useful.

That's not necessarily true. This coinswap proposal [1] aggregates a set of self-spends (wallet spending a balance back to itself) and in the process obfuscates the transaction graph.

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/mimblewimble-coinswap-proposal/8322

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