Questions tagged [coinjoin]

Coinjoin allows people to combine their transactions with random other people to increase privacy.

CoinJoin is a method for mixing coins in a transaction. The idea is that several users wanting to send funds co-ordinate their intentions by collating the inputs to their transactions so that a "master transaction" can be built. Once that's done then they verify it contains what they need in terms of outputs and change and sign the transaction. Only when all the users have signed it then it can be relayed to the network for inclusion in a block.

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In a Chaumian Coinjoin, what prevents the coordinator from using a different private key to blind sign each output and thus map inputs to outputs?

I'm not an expert on Chaumian blind signatures, so forgive me if the answer to this is obvious, but I'm wondering how the coordinator can prove to the participants that it's not doing what I asked in the question. If it uses a different key for each…
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alone in a CoinJoin amongst colluding scoundrels- can they spot you?

What if you participate in a CoinJoin and all the other actors that you're exchanging with are colluding against you, or controlled by the same person. I guess in this scenario if they wanted they could easily identify you, isn't that right?
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