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Board Wallet software
Re: WasabiWallet.io | Open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin Wallet for desktop
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 21/03/2023, 10:25:48 UTC
While Joinmarket and Lightning have better censorship resistance opportunities than centralized coinjoin coordination, ChipMixer obviously does not belong on this list.
ChipMixer never denied to mix coins, as long as it was alive. I think it pretty much belongs on this list.

The censorship that Chipmixer was a victim of resulted not only in the government denying service to ChipMixers customers, but resulted in the confiscation of funds and transaction history stored by the centralized custodian.
That's why I said before it shut down. There was no ChipMixer after it was seized by authorities.

A centralized coinjoin coordinator is strictly better than a centralized custodian because a coinjoin coordinator is not able to give your coins or reveal any user data to a government even if they were forced to.
Sure, and it's safer to not hand over your coins to anybody if you had the choice, but it is irrelevant to what a mixer is supposed to do; and that is mix and ensure fungibility and privacy. Two of which are now questionably offered by Wasabi's default coordinator.