Bitcoin Q&A: CoinJoin, Privacy, and Network Bifurcation

Will CoinJoins making blockchain analytics irrelevant? Could there be a bifurcation of the network over privacy improvements, if a large portion of the supply is held in centralised services?

CORRECTION: At 1:57 I say that the European Union has deemed CoinJoin to be illegal. This is completely false. While various centralized / custodial mixing services have been shut down (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dutch-authorities-shut-down-bestmixer), there are a few CoinJoin wallets which are not custodial and there has not been any European Union legislation banning CoinJoin.

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