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Re: Bitcoin mixing
by
NotATether
on 10/02/2024, 08:09:44 UTC
How can I mix Bitcoins with minimal fees? So that the output is pure AML. Is it possible to split the transaction into many small ones?

Assuming you found some technology that uses a large-enough UTXO set, which is essential for anonymity, it's most likely going to split the mix into cycles. Where in each cycle there are a few transactions that go through a bunch of addresses. So in between each cycle, you can change the amount to a smaller value.

Very basic example:

Code:
A - B - C - D - E - F

A transactions:

1 2 6
     7
  3 8
     9
  4 (decoy)

B transactions:

6 10 16
     17
  11 18 (decoy)
     19
7 (decoy)
8 12 20
     21
  13 (decoy)
9 14 22 <-- your first amount is here
     23
  15 24 (decoy)
     25

C/D/E transactions are similar to B except you can dynamically change the target amount in each step.

Each number is a transaction output, and it is assumed that when using this to make new transactions that additional, fresh inputs are also included in each tx that go to other places - utilizing CoinJoin.

F would be a (finalizer) where there is one more cluster of transactions before it finally hits your destination address. Which of the service is using bc1q addresses should also be a bc1q address, same applies for 1 3 and bc1p addresses.

In each transaction it can pay the lowest most reasonable fee to minimize cost offsets to the buyer, however this causes the mix to take a couple of hours at minimum.

Ideally we would make mixing as efficient as a hash function, where outputs are computationally impossible to trace.