Is chipmixer on LN? What process would you recommend to gain privacy using LN?

Just curious where the "wasabi is working with chain analysis" is coming from? I've heard other people say whirlpool shares all your wallet info with there server even if you run through your own node? Which coinjoin would you recommend or would you recommend something else?

I'm trying to decide whether I should coinjoin my coins or not. All coins are from kyc exchange and have been in cold storage a while. I've heard arguments for coinjoining and also why not to. I plan on just holding them for a while. Opinions? Maybe I should just focus on accumulating non kyc coins?

Ran the reindex but sparrow still wouldn't connect. Also tried rescan also with no luck. I was able to get sparrow to connect again by deleting the sparrow wallet folder in Bitcoin core.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin/wallet/sparrow

After deleting that and restarting Bitcoin core sparrow is connected again. I've also ordered an ups battery backup to run the node and router/modem off of so hopefully this problem is resolved now.

So I had a very brief power outage today and now sparrow won't connect to the node again. So strange. My only guess is that because bitcoin core didn't shutdown properly it's causing some issue. Am I just going to have to reinstall bitcoin core everytime my pc shuts down abruptly?

Eventually I'd like to setup a private electrum server. Is that viable to run on a windows PC? And do you have any recommended guides to setup an electrum server? I also have no experience with tor so any recommendations for that? I'm assuming that's a straight forward verify and install?

An update:

I uninstalled sparrow and Bitcoin core and deleted all associated files. I then reinstalled them and sparrow is now connecting to the node perfectly. I guess we'll see if this issue comes up again in a few weeks. Maybe something got corrupted in Bitcoin core? Idk but thank you everyone for the suggestions!

I just updated sparrow and still won't connect. I think I'm going to try completely uninstalling Bitcoin core and sparrow and then reinstalling them and see if that works.

Here is all that is in my bitcoin core config file

server=1

rpcuser=bitcoin
rpcpassword=yourpassword

[main]
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcbind=node ip
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=sparrow ip

I've triple checked these are correct and they worked before. It's so strange that even sparrow on the same pc as the node won't connect. I might try just reinstalling bitcoin core and see if that fixes it.

This would make sense that AV is causing an issue. I just have windows defender. How would I check that is causing an issue? And any way to resolve apart from waiting for a new windows update to fix?

The node should be all synced. It's been running for a few weeks now. How do I confirm it verifies chain tips and the initial block download has finished?

Here is the last two logs from sparrow.

2022-10-26 19:52:04,426 ERROR [JavaFX Application Thread] c.s.s.p.ServerPreferencesController [null:-1] Connection error
com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.ServerException: Check if Bitcoin Core is running, and the authentication details are correct.
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.ElectrumServer$ConnectionService$1.call(Unknown Source)
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.ElectrumServer$ConnectionService$1.call(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable.call(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Service.lambda$executeTask$6(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Service.lambda$executeTask$7(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2022-10-26 19:52:35,664 ERROR [JavaFX Application Thread] c.s.s.n.ElectrumServer [null:-1] Failed to start BWT
dev.bwt.libbwt.BwtException: JSON-RPC error: JSON decode error: missing field `keypoololdest` at line 1 column 334
   at com.sparrowwallet.merged.module@1.6.6/dev.bwt.libbwt.daemon.NativeBwtDaemon.start(Native Method)
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.Bwt.start(Unknown Source)
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.Bwt.start(Unknown Source)
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.Bwt$ConnectionService$1.call(Unknown Source)
   at com.sparrowwallet.sparrow@1.6.6/com.sparrowwallet.sparrow.net.Bwt$ConnectionService$1.call(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable.call(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Service.lambda$executeTask$6(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
   at javafx.graphics@18/javafx.concurrent.Service.lambda$executeTask$7(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Yes same LAN network. I configured the DHCP on the node PC. The local ip's are correct according to my router. The WAN ip is changing though.

The firewall has allowances for both Bitcoin core and sparrow. Do I need do more indepth config than just the "add program" option? I also just tried installing sparrow on the node PC and it won't connect to node either.

The node is definitely receiving incoming connections. It has 21 inbound right now and bitnodes shows it as accepting incoming. The WAN ip is automatic and has changed since I setup the node. But it looks like the internal ip's for the two PC's are static. Should I change that WAN ip to static?

I setup a full node a few weeks ago and successfully connected sparrow wallet from a different PC but on same network. It connected fine until yesterday and now sparrow won't connect. When I setup the node I followed the tutorial on bitcoin.org and did the port forwarding. The node I still receiving incoming connections fine. I followed the sparrow tutorial and all info is still correct.

The node is running on a PC with windows 10 and sparrow is on a pc with windows 11. I haven't changed anything but sparrow just won't connect now. Any suggestions?