Trezor confirms refusing coinjoin UTXOs to guard privateness of others

Following studies of censorship from {hardware} pockets producer, Trezor, StarCrypto has acquired affirmation Trezor denies some UTXOs from coming into the coinjoin coordinator to guard the privateness of different customers.

A consultant for Trezor acknowledged,

“We additionally acknowledge a accountability to stop UTXOs that are already underneath surveillance, from harming the privateness of different contributors due to the connection to severe crimes.”

The corporate additional acknowledged the “delicate challenge” of the matter. Nevertheless, it strengthened that every one refusals are achieved with the purpose of “supporting coinjoin transactions is to supply particular person customers with privateness.”

Trezor additionally confirmed that no on-chain knowledge evaluation firm receives “any cash”; as a substitute, a “danger rating” is returned based mostly on the “UTXO coming into the coinjoin.” Primarily based on the chance rating, some UTXOs could also be refused if flagged as “underneath scrutiny.”

“When UTXOs identified to be underneath scrutiny enter a coinjoin, the coordinator will simply refuse them. Nothing worse than this occurs.

We can’t test particular person customers or observe or report on their exercise since coinjoin is enabled by way of Tor, the anonymization community and furthermore, we use block filters.”

Additional info on Trezor’s strategy to coinjoin can be taught extra on the Trezor web site.

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