43 - Bitcoin and Beyond: An Interview with Max Hillebrand
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Coin Joins - Blacklisted Coin Join Coordination
I think it's just crucial that we have technology that increases the optionality of users first and foremost. And so to have these rounds that are blacklisted in the sense of known criminals that are likely to cause problems for other users is going to be very difficult if not impossible. So ultimately, in the realm of centrally coordinated coin joins, this is a potential censorship vector that the coordinator can either do willingly or be coerced to do. But I don't think that that's a fundamental problem of centralized coin joins because the free market solves this. If we have many entrepreneurs providing services, then they can provide different services to different users. That will lead to the most value possibly being generated in a
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