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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: CoinShuffle: Practical Decentralized Coin Mixing for Bitcoin
by
TimRuffing
on 16/09/2015, 09:04:55 UTC
I've followed the JoinMarket project which I recently discovered, but I just came across this.  Is this project still active, and if so, where can I find current information?  How would this compare to JoinMarket transactions?

Quoting myself:
I've just started a collaboration with Kristov Atlas. We will write a BIP draft including a more detailed, development-oriented specification of the protocol including all the nitty-gritty details. We also plan talk to wallet developers and I will definitively write some code as soon as a reasonable version of the BIP is there. Contributions and collaborations are welcome in all stages, of course. Smiley
We'll provide more information, including a mailing list, soon.

Regarding JoinMarket, I'm not sure. It seems that it is not so sophisticated as CoinShuffle, but that's rather a first guess. Is there a technical description of how it works under the hood? I can only find descriptions of how to use it.
Also, JoinMarket seems to understand the problem as a economic one and someone is gets fees for enabling the mixing. CoinShuffle is different here, the participants just pay the single transactions fee for the CoinJoin transaction, which is very low and can even be split among all participants. But there is no party that gets an additional mixing fee (on top of the transaction fee).