We have run out of chips again. New chips are being prepared. We need to find a better solution.
Our current ideas are:
a - kind-of traffic light that will show when chip level is too low - green ok, yellow under 50 BTC, red under 10 BTC
b - massive chip pool increase - that would require to open up for investing and that would require to set flat fee instead of donations
What do you think about both ideas?
I would reckon these options really do not conflict each other and i would like to see both being implemented. Investments could be a good idea, but i think if there could be an automatic chip refill mechanism in place that would be even better.
An indicator of how many btc is left in the mixer would be nice as well, and as i said, if both A and B can be implemented simultaneously then it's the best route to go.
But something has to be done as we've seen quite severe chip "droughts" over the past few weeks already.
There are problems with revealing how much bitcoin are left in reserves imo, because it makes it somewhat easier for people to discover the chips that chipmixer store their funds in and potentially track them.
That way, privacy of mixing is reduced, probably not by much at all but there is a small possibility that this would be detrimental to the user's privacy.
Anyways, i'd go with only b. The automatic refill idea seems interesting as well.