But hey, one has got to wonder, why is there an apparent lack of bitcoin privacy solutions?
Because of two reasons.
- Working on a privacy service puts you in danger.
- It is very difficult to gain privacy in Bitcoin. No ring signatures and no confidential transactions, that's already a major disadvantage. Coinjoin can help, but since there are strong privacy technologies implemented elsewhere which can't be introduced in Bitcoin without a softfork, it discourages development further.
Under these conditions I'm just appreciative of what we have, especially realizing what risks any btc privacy devs are taking.
Laying in bed with the enemy is not worthy of respect. I don't get why it's so difficult to understand that.
It's not beyond the subject of this thread, you posted saying you stick with "tested, peer-reviewed software, running in a decentralized fashion, and avoid pro-censorship and anti-fungibility software which is subjected to arbitrary ethic rules"
And that's what I do. I no longer use mixers, mainly because I don't want to hand over custody. I have no problem directing to such services, if you're fine with putting some trust to the people behind it.
According to your reasoning, people should be forbidden from recommending VPNs, because they have said they use Tor to browse anonymously. According to my reasoning, people have the freedom to choose after they've studied the cons and pros of each.