Good stuff - I hope it will explode
Thanks! There's a bit of a trust issue with any new Bitcoin software project (especially with one that asks you to enter your private key!), so i'm having a hard time finding people to try it out. Hopefully time will be the solution to that.
Testnet is the proper solution to that. Let people test it using testnet coins and the problem about the bitcoin private key risk goes away.
I totally agree. It is set up right now to work off testnet by default (the user needs to set an environment variable to connect to Mainnet). Unfortunately, the testnet knowledgeable audience is a lot smaller, and CoinJoining needs multiple people running it at the same time. Hopefully in time, this will resolve itself.
And i'm not sure i really made this clear in my original posting, but the only thing needed to run Coinmux is Java and the Jar file available from
http://github.com/michaelgpearce/coinmux. You don't need to have BitcoinQT installed and it does not require downloading the blockchain to your computer. I'm trying to make something that an average Bitcoin user will be able to understand and use.